Sozak, or Sozaq ( kk, Созақ, ''Sozaq'', سوزاق, also Russified Suzak), is a village in

Sozak District Sozak ( kk, Созақ ауданы, ) is a district of Turkistan Region in southern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Sholakkorgan. Population: It contains the titular village of Sozak. Geography The A ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

History

Sozaq was the capital of the

Kazakh Khanate The Kazakh Khanate ( kk, Қазақ Хандығы, , ), in eastern sources known as Ulus of the Kazakhs, Ulus of Jochi, Yurt of Urus, was a Kazakh state in Central Asia, successor of the Golden Horde existing from the 15th to 19th century, ...

from c. 1465-1469. In February 1930, there was an anti-Soviet

insurgency An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irr ...

in the village, following which the administrative center of the district was transferred to the village of

Sholakkorgan Sholakkorgan ( kk, Шолаққорған) is a settlement and the administrative center of Sozak District in Turkistan Region of Kazakhstan. It is the head of the Sholakkorgan rural district (KATO code - 515630100). Population: Geography Shola ...

References

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