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Encyclopedia > Kipchakia

Kypchakia is a non-sovereign region in the current Commonwealth of Independent States where homelands of major Kypchak-Turkic speaking peoples are located, stretching from Kyrgyzstan in the East to Northern Caucasus/Chuvashia in the West, and Riazan in the North to Kazakhstan to the South. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (in Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ) - Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv) is a confederation or alliance consisting of 12 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. ... Kypchaks (also Kipchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. The western Kypchaks were also named Kuman, Kun and Polovtsian (pl. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... The Caucasus , a region boardering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Capital Cheboksary Area - total - % water 81st - 18,300 km² - N/A Population - Total - Density 41st - est. ... Ryazan (Рязань) is a city in Central Russia federal district, an administrative center of the Ryazan Oblast. ...


Greater Kypchakia also includes the Russian-Ukrainian steppes, the Carpathians, Transylvania where historical Pecheneg, Cumans, and Magyars held sway, and the bulk of Siberia where many forest peoples have strong connections with the Turkic pastoral culture of the steppes. A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, steppe (from Russian step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally reckoned as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said... This is about the terrestrial mountain range. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: Transilvanija, Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvánia, Polish: Siedmiogród) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ... The Pechenegs or Patzinaks (in Hungarian: Besenyők) were a semi-nomadic people of the Central Asian steppes speaking a Turkic language. ... The Cumans, also known as Polovtsy (Slavic for yellowish) were a nomadic West Turkic tribe living on the north of the Black Sea along the Volga. ... Árpád Feszty and assistants vast (over 8000 m2) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary, now displayed at Ópusztaszer National Memorial Site in Hungary Magyars are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...


A reviving cultural zone, its proponents hope Kypchakia will serve as a more conservative and more balanced economy than Western Russia, the traditional heartland of the Federation. The Kypchak language is gathering popularity among Tatars, Bashkirs, Russians, Kazakhs and diverse ethnic/religious groups as a vital, creative new lingua franca of eastern Russian Federation. Tatars or Tartars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар) is a collective name applied to the Turkic-speaking people of Europe and Asia. ... The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. ... A Kazakh and his camel The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazak, Qazaq, or Quazaq), (in Kazakh: Қазақ; in Russian: Казах; English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic-Mongol people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Russia and China). ... Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ...


Key to the establishment of this new federation is cultivation, in place of exploitation. To achieve this cultivation, Siberia will develop more links with Central Asian oil producing regions, China, Japan and the Koreas. It is observed that the increasing demand for autonomy among large Siberian republics, districts, krais and regions points to this direction of decentralization and conservation. Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ... Krai (Russian: край; British English transliteration: kray), is a term used to refer to several of Russias 89 administrative regions (federal subjects). ...


See also New Kypchak language. New Kypchak (also New Qypchak) is a standardized new language that unites major Kypchak Turkic tongues, such as Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Karakalpak, Kumyk, Bashkir, Qazan Tatar, Astrakhan Tatar, Nogay etc. ...


External links

  • Kypchak Renaissance
  • Nazarbayev's presidential page, brief mentioning of Dasht-i-Kypchak

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У татар есть свои ... (977 words)
// Kiptchakland // Kipchakia // The Polovetsian Country.
MİŞERİLE - the Tataric name of MISHERIA = MISHERLAND of the South - West part of Autochthonally - Historical Cumania = Kiptchakland = Kipchakia = The Polovetsian Country = KIPÇAKİLE.
MİŞERİLE - Татарское название Мишерии = Мишерлэнда, Юго - Западной части Автохтонно - Исторической Кумании = Kiptchakland = Kipchakia = The Polovetsian Country = KIPÇAKİLE =
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