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Kazak (other)
Kazak may refer to: Places * Kazak, Bulgaria, a village * Kazak, Iran, a village in Fars Province * Kazak Island, Antarctica * 6110 Kazak, a main-belt asteroid Other uses * Cossacks, a Slavic-speaking social group of Eastern Europe * Kazakhs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic group of Central Asia ** Kazak language, Kazakh language, a Turkic language * Kazak (surname) * Kazak, a fictional dog in the Kurt Vonnegut novel ''The Sirens of Titan'' See also * Kazakh language, Qazaq, the language spoken by the Kazakhs * Qazaq (journal), ''Qazaq'' (journal), a Kazakh language newspaper published in the early 20th century *Kazakh (other) *Kozak (other) *Kozakov (other) *Cossack (other) {{dab, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazak, Bulgaria
Kazak is a village in the municipality of Ivaylovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria. Accessed May 24, 2010 References Villages in Haskovo Province {{Haskovo-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazak, Iran
Gezak ( fa, گزك; also known as Gazak-e Beyẕā’, Gezak-e Beyzā’, Kazak, Khasak, and Khāzak) is a village in Banesh Rural District, Beyza District, Sepidan County, Fars Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 136, in 31 families. References Populated places in Beyza County {{Sepidan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazak Island
Kazak Island lies 1 km south of Hawker Island and 0.5 km west of the Mule Peninsula, in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The nearest permanent research station is Australia's Davis Station, Davis, some 10 km to the north-east on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Discovery and naming The island was mapped from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and also photographed by the United States Navy, USN’s Operation Highjump (1946–47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1956, and by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, ANARE in 1957 and 1958. It was named ''Ostrov Kazak'' ('Cossack Island') by the Soviet Expedition. Important Bird Area A 167 hectare site, which comprises all of Kazak Island, neighbouring Zolotov Island and the intervening marine area, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 23,000 breedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6110 Kazak
__NOTOC__ Year 611 ( DCXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 611 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Persian Empire * Byzantine–Persian War: The Persian army under Shahrbaraz captures Antioch, and most of the remaining Byzantine fortresses in Syria and Mesopotamia. King Khosrau II is re-establishing a neo-Persian Empire, and intensifies his war effort. The Byzantine army, ruined by defeat and corruption, offers only half-hearted opposition. Britain * Cynegils becomes king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, after the death of his uncle Ceolwulf (according to the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''). He rules from 611 to 643 and shares power to some extent with his eldest son, Cwichelm, who may have been given Upper Wessex (approximate date). By topic Religion * Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cossacks
The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or , sk, kozáci , uk, козаки́ are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia. Historically, they were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people, who, while under the nominal suzerainty of various Eastern European states at the time, were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service. Although numerous linguistic and religious groups came together to form the Cossacks, most of them coalesced and became East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christians. The Cossacks were particularly noted for holding democratic traditions. The rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire endowed Cossacks with certain sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: , , , , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian; russian: казахи) are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to northern parts of Central Asia, chiefly Kazakhstan, but also parts of northern Uzbekistan and the border regions of Russia, as well as Northwestern China (specifically Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture) and Mongolia ( Bayan-Ölgii Province). The Kazakhs are descendants of the ancient Turkic Kipchak tribes and the medieval Mongolic tribes, and generally classified as Turco-Mongol cultural group. Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465, when following disintegration of the Golden Horde, several tribes under the rule of the sultans Janibek and Kerei departed from the Khanate of Abu'l-Khayr Khan in hopes of forming a powerful khanate of their own. ''Kazakh'' is used to refer to ethnic Kazakhs, while the term ''Kazakhstani'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazak Language
The Kazakh or simply Qazaq (Latin: or , Cyrillic: or , Arabic Script: or , , ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan and a significant minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, north-western China and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia. The language is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union (some 472,000 in Russia according to the 2010 Russian Census), Germany, and Turkey. Like other Turkic languages, Kazakh is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony. ''Ethnologue'' recognizes three mutually intelligible dialect groups, Northeastern Kazakh, the most widely spoken variety which also serves as the basis for the standard language, Southern Kazakh and Western Kazakh. The language share a degree of mutual intelligiblity with closely related Karakalpak while i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazak (surname)
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Kazak is a surname of several possible origins. Notable people with this surname include: * Ali Kazak, Palestinian diplomat * Andrei Kazak (born 1980), Belarusian sport shooter * Anne E. Kazak, American clinical psychologist * Chetin Kazak (born 1972), Bulgarian politician * Eddie Kazak (1920–1999), American Major League Baseball player * Levent Kazak, Turkish screenwriter * Metin Kazak (born 1972), Bulgarian politician * Nataliya Kazak (born 1960), Soviet rower * Yakov Kazak (born 1985), Belarusian retired footballer See also * Jēkabs Kazaks (1895–1920), Latvian modernist painter * Kozak (surname) * Kazakov * Kozakov (other) * Cossack (other) * Kossak Kossak is the surname of 4 generations of notable Polish painters, writers and poets, descending from the historical painter Juliusz Kossak. Notable people with this surname include: * Progenitor, Juliusz Kossak (1824–99), Polish painter from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sirens Of Titan
''The Sirens of Titan'' is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth. Plot This novel begins with an omniscient comment: "Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky." Malachi Constant is the richest man in a future North America. He possesses extraordinary luck that he attributes to divine favor which he has used to build upon his father's fortune. He becomes the centerpoint of a journey that takes him from Earth to Mars in preparation for an interplanetary war, to Mercury with another Martian survivor of that war, back to Earth to be pilloried as a sign of Man's displeasure with his arrogance, and finally to Titan where he again meets the man ostensibly responsible for the turn of events that have befallen him, Winston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakh Language
The Kazakh or simply Qazaq (Latin: or , Cyrillic: or , Arabic Script: or , , ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan and a significant minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, north-western China and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia. The language is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union (some 472,000 in Russia according to the 2010 Russian Census), Germany, and Turkey. Like other Turkic languages, Kazakh is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony. '' Ethnologue'' recognizes three mutually intelligible dialect groups, Northeastern Kazakh, the most widely spoken variety which also serves as the basis for the standard language, Southern Kazakh and Western Kazakh. The language share a degree of mutual intelligiblity with closely related Karakalpak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qazaq (journal)
''Qazaq'' ( kk, Қазақ, قازاق) was a Kazakh language weekly journal started by Akhmet Baitursynov (editor in chief), Alikhan Bukeikhanov and Mirjaqip Dulatuli. ''Qazaq'' was published from 1913 until March 1918, when it was shut down by the Soviet government. Influenced by other Jadid journals, ''Qazaq'' was considered to be a medium promoting the emerging Kazakh nationalism against Tsarist imperial policies. ''Qazaq'' published articles on the Kazakh culture, colonization of lands by Russian settlers, taxation issues, educational issues, pros and cons of Kazakh nomadic life and ongoing settlements etc. The founders of ''Qazaq'' newspaper wanted to introduce western style reforms to the Kazakh lands as a first step in the gradual progress of Kazakh people towards autonomy and independence. Influenced by Western scientific and cultural achievements, contributors to the ''Qazaq'' newspaper wanted to introduce similar reforms to the nomadic Kazakhs. They thought nomadic life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakh (other)
Kazakh, Qazaq or Kazakhstani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Kazakhstan * Kazakhs, an ethnic group * Kazakh language *The Kazakh Khanate *Kazakh cuisine *Qazakh Rayon, Azerbaijan *Qazax, Azerbaijan *Kazakh Uyezd, administrative district of Elisabethpol Governorate during Russian rule in Azerbaijan *Khazak, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran See also * Cossack (other) * Kazaky, Ukrainian pop band * Kazak (other) Kazak may refer to: Places * Kazak, Bulgaria, a village * Kazak, Iran, a village in Fars Province * Kazak Island, Antarctica * 6110 Kazak, a main-belt asteroid Other uses * Cossacks, a Slavic-speaking social group of Eastern Europe * Kazakhs, a ... {{disambig, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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