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KYRGYSZTAN

 Кыргыз Республикасы

All over the world live around four million Kyrgyz people, most of them in the central asian republic named after them.

 

The origin of the name is until today not clearly solved, only the first syllable "Kyrik" - fourty is certain. "Kys" could mean girl, as mentioned in one of the famous folk myths: Fourty girls went for wanderings and as they returned their tribes disappeared because they were vanished by their enemies.

They became great warriors, spreaded all over the area and formed the tribe of the Kyrgyz.

Meanwhile scientists confirmed that assumption by means of the krygyz epic Manas as they are a associations by these fourty tribes.

They orginated very likely from the southern Altai mountains. First mentioned already in the 3rd millennium B.C. by the Chinese who called them Hélǐqìsī.

Distinct evidence of kyrgyz history occured in the 6th century A.D. when they were vassals of the Gokturks.
The following centuries were rather affected by occupation: by the Mongols, the Oirats, the Chinese and the Russians during the 20th century. Only in 9th century the Yenissey-Kyrgyz became the most powerful nation of Central Asia when their fiefdom reached from River Lena, Irtych, Lake Baikal to Tien Shan mountains. The centre of power was somewhere in Tuva.

Since the day of independance on 31st of augsut 1991 the young Kyrgyz Republic had ups and downs. In the beginning is seemed like the country could be an island of democracy in Central Asia but it changed after president Akayev´s vein became more and more authoritarian. His presidency ended in 2005 with the Revolution of Tulips.
 

In 2010 bloody riots in the western and southern area close to the border of Uzbekistan occured and many citizend, mostly ethnic Uzbek died. Since then Kyrgysztan is trying to form a parlamentarian democracy after German example.

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