Маsanchi () is a

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i village in the

Korday District Korday ( kk, Қордай ауданы, ) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of Korday. See also *2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes *Otar (village) Otar ( kk, От ...

of the Jambyl Province. The village is located near the border with Kyrgyzstan, is approximately 45 kilometers southeast of the village of

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, and approximately 130 kilometers southwest of

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. The village has also been reported as having a large amount of ethnically

Dungan people Dungan, Xiao'erjing: ; zh, s=东干族, t=東干族, p=Dōnggān zú, w=Tung1kan1-tsu2, , Xiao'erjing: ; russian: Дунгане, ''Dungane''; ky, Дуңгандар, ''Duñgandar'', دۇنغاندار; kk, Дүңгендер, ''Düñgende ...

(people of

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

origin).

Names

Town was originally called Karakunuz (russian: Каракунуз, sometimes Караконыз or Караконуз), which means "black beetle" in

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. The Dungans themselves used to refer to Karakunuz as Ingpan ( dng, Инпан; russian: Иньпан; ), which is an archaic word in

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for "military camp." From 1903 to 1918, the town was briefly renamed Nikolaevka after Tsar

Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...

. In 1965, Karakunuz was renamed ''Masanchi'' (sometimes spelt as "Masanchin"), after

Magaza Masanchi Magaza Masanchi (27 July 1886 – 3 March 1937; Cyrillic Dungan: Магәзы Масанчын), Magaza Masanchin ( Cyrillic Dungan: Магәзы Масанчын), or Ma Sanqi, was a Dungan communist revolutionary commander and Statesman in th ...

or Masanchin (Dungan: Магәзы Масанчын; ), a Dungan participant in the

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and a Soviet Kazakhstan statesman.

Demographics

According to the 2009 Census, the village of Masanchi had a population of 13,606 people, and the administrative district governing the village had a population of 14,502. Archived at https://www.webcitation.org/6HNO4sHcM?url=http://www.stat.kz/p_perepis/DocLib1/Население%20рус%201%20том.pdf The 1999 Census reported populations of 8,926 and 9,608, respectively. Of the 13,606 people in the village, 6,914 people were reported as men, and 6,692 were reported as women.

Ethnic conflict

On 5 February 2020, a conflict between

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and

Dungans Dungan, Xiao'erjing: ; zh, s=东干族, t=東干族, p=Dōnggān zú, w=Tung1kan1-tsu2, , Xiao'erjing: ; russian: Дунгане, ''Dungane''; ky, Дуңгандар, ''Duñgandar'', دۇنغاندار; kk, Дүңгендер, ''Düñgende ...

broke out over the alleged beating of an elderly Kazakh man by a Dungan man. The subsequent clashes have reportedly killed 11 dungan, caused the arrest of 47 more, and resulted in damage to local properties.

References

{{reflist Populated places in Jambyl Region Cities and towns in Kazakhstan