Mythologies of the Kazakh Tribes
Kazakhs are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe . They share a common culture , language and history that is closely related to those of other Turkic peoples. The majority of ethnic Kazakhs live in their transcontinental nation state of Kazakhstan . Ethnic Kazakh communities are present in Kazakhstan's border regions in Russia , Kyrgyzstan , northern Uzbekistan , northwestern China ( Xinjiang ), western Mongolia ( Bayan-Ölgii ), and northern Iran ( Golestan ). The Kazakh people were formed as a result of the merging of Mongol, Turkic, and other Eurasian groups between the 13th and 15th centuries. In the 15th century, under the leadership of two sultans Janibek Khan and Kerei Khan Kazakhs founded the Kazakh Khanate , which existed until the mid-19th century. The term Kazakh is used to refer to ethnic Kazakhs, while the term Kazakhstani refers to all citizens of Kazakhstan, regardless of ethnicity. The Kaza...