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List Of Kazakh Khans
Starting from the formation of the Kazakhs in the mid-15th century, the Kazakhs khans led both the unified Kazakh Khanate and later the three main Kazakh divisions. Khan (title), Khan is a title for a ruler used by nomadic and semi-nomadic groups throughout Central Asia. The Kazakhs were originally members of the nomadic Uzbek tribes who, under the leadership of Abu'l-Khayr Khan, migrated from the northwestern part of the Dasht-i Qipchaq south towards Transoxiana in the 1430s and 1440s and attacked parts of the Timurid Empire.Bregel, p. 44. Two tribal leaders, Kerei and Janibek, who were themselves descendants of Urus Khan and by extension Genghis Khan, decided to leave the service of Abu'l-Khayr Khan. Those who followed Kerei and Janibek become known as the Uzbek-Kazakhs, ''Kazakh'' being a Turkic word which roughly translates as "vagabond" or "freebooter". Abu'l-Khayr Khan died in 1468, and for the next three decades many of his followers began recognizing the authority of the U ...
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Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (Kazakh language, Kazakh: , , , ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe. They share a common Culture of Kazakhstan, culture, Kazakh language, language and History of Kazakhstan, history that is closely related to those of other Turkic peoples of Western and Central Asia. 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, northern Uzbekistan, northwestern China (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture), western Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii Province) and Iran (Golestan province). The Kazakhs arose from the merging of various medieval tribes of Turkic and Mongolic origin in the 15th century. Kazakh identity was shaped following the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465, when following the disintegration of the Turkification, Turkified state of Golden Horde, several tribes under the rule of the sultans J ...
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Burunduk Khan
Burunduk Khan (, ''Būryndyq han'') also known as Muryndyq (, ''Mūryndyq'') was a son of Kerei Khan and the third Khan of the Kazakh Khanate in 1474 or from 1480 to 1511. Biography Burunduk became a khan in 1474. The sources describe the reign of Burunduk Khan with other names of the khans mentioned as well in which among the most authoritative was Kasym Khan, the son of Janibek Khan who roamed around Lake Balkhash and the Karatal River. At the same time, Burunduk Khan was inferior to Kasym Khan due to his number of supporters which had million and Janysh-Sultan, had only one hundred thousand. Although Burynduq was considered a Khan, Kasym who commanded Kazakh troops, was more famous due to his involvement in the battles with Muhammad Shaybani. The Kazakh sultans supported Kasym as well since in every military campaign he earned a victory due to his nobility, so his influence grew so much that he was declared as the Khan of all Kazakhs despite not having an official title and t ...
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Junior Jüz
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Abulkhair Khan
Mirza Abū'l-Khair Mūhammed Khan bin Qājı Abdūllah Sultan (, , ), more commonly known by his short name Abū'l-Khair Khan (1693–1748) was leader of the Kazakhs, Kazakh Little jüz in present-day western and central Kazakhstan. During this period, the Little jüz participated in the Kazakh-Dzungar Wars mainly to avenge the "Dzungar invasion of Kazakhstan, Great Disaster" Dzungar invasion of major Kazakh territories. Under the strong leadership of Abu'l-Khair, the Muslim Kazakhs, Kazakh Ghazi (warrior), ghazis defeated Dzungar forces at the Bulanty river in 1726 and in the Battle of Anrakai in 1729. Abu'l Khair Khan was born as the second oldest son of Hajji (Qajı) Abdullah Sultan, a Kazakh ''Mirza (noble), mırza'' (aristocrat) who had quickly risen to the royal ranks after completing his hajj to Mecca. Like his father, Abu'l-Khair also began as a ''Mirza (noble), mırza'' before rising to the throne. This made him one of the few documented khans of the Kazakh Khanate t ...
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Kenesary Kasymov
Kenesary Qasymuly, or Kenesary Khan (; 1802–1847) was the last khan of the Kazakh Khanate, grandson of Ablai Khan, from the clan of Genghisid-Töre. He fought to protect the independence of Kazakh lands and attempted to restore the traditional khanate rule. In modern Kazakhstan, he is revered at the state level as the leader of a rebellion against the Russian Empire. In Soviet historiography, Kenesary was characterized as the leader of the reactionary feudal-monarchist movement aimed at separating Kazakhstan from Russia. Biography Kenesary was born into a noble and wealthy Genghisid Töre clan. His grandfather - Ablai Khan was one of the most significant rulers of Kazakh Khanate. His grandmother was a daughter of Dzungar Khuntaiji Galdan Tseren. From his elder wife Aikumis, Kenesary fathered 6 children - Sarzhan, Yesengeldi, Koshek, Agatay, Bopay and Kenesary. Bopay, the younger sister of Kenesary, was an active participant in his uprising. Batyr Nauryzbay, the youn ...
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Ablai Khan
Wāli-ūllah Abū'l-Mansūr Khan (, romanized: ''Uäliūllah Äbılmansūr Han''), better known as Abylai Khan or Ablai Khan (May 23, 1711 — May 23, 1781) was Khan of the Middle Jüz (central region) and was the last independent Kazakh Khan of the Kazakh Khanate before the Khanate was absorbed into the Russian Empire. Life Born as Abu'l-Mansur, Abylai Khan belonged to the senior branch of descendants of the 15th century founder of the Kazakh state, Janybek Khan. The son of Korkem Wali Sultan, he was given the shortened name Abulmansur at birth. Abulmansur spent his childhood and part of his youth in exile, spending many years near present-day Burabay on the northern borders of the Kazakh Khanate. After losing his father to political rivals at the age of thirteen, Abulmansur moved back south towards present-day Kyzylorda. First, he worked as a shepherd in a noble Tole Bi and then Dauletgeldi Bai a herdsman. The ill-dressed and emaciated boy was called by the contempt ...
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Tauke Khan
Tawakkul Muhammad Bahadur Qazi Khan (, romanized: ''Täuekel-Mūhammed Bahadür Qazy xan'') (1635 – 1715, r. 1680 – 1715) ruled as a Kazakh khan of the Kazakh Khanate. In 1652 after the death of his father Jahangir Khan, the ruler of Jungars Erdeni Batyr had dramatically increased his military pressure on the Kazakh Khanate in an attempt to conquer it. Eventually, he died in 1670. Galdan Boshugtu Khan replaced him (1670–1699, in some sources 1670–1697), and was later succeeded by Tsewang Rabtan (1699–1729). Throughout these invasions, a weak Kazakh ruler named Bahadur Khan had taken the throne. He was quickly deposed by the Kazakhs, allowing Tauke Muhammad to take the Kazakh throne. The hardest time for the Kazakhs started from 1698, when the Kazakhs divided their khanate into Juzes, as a result maintaining unity became a complicated task. Tauke Muhammad, who remained the khan of all three Juzes, managed to keep the unity of Kazakhs, earning him the honorific title ...
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Salqam Jangir Khan
Mūhammad Salqām-Jahangīr Khan bin Esim Sultan (, romanized: ''Mūhammed Salqam-Jahangir Han bin Esım Sūltan''), commonly known as Salqam-Jahangir Khan or Salqam-Jangir Khan, ruled as the Khan of the Kazakh Khanate from 1643 to 1652. He was the son of Esim Khan. Mention Some sources referred to him as "Jahangir Khan", an alternate spelling of his name in the Kazakh and Persian languages. After a stunning victory in the battle for Orbulak its small growth and a strong constitution received from the people nicknamed "Salqam Jahangir" which translates as "impressive, powerful Jahangir" and often referred to as a "Salqam-Jangir Khan". Biography Salqam Jangir Khan was a prominent statesman and an outstanding leader who succeeded Esim Khan's throne. During the life of courage Jangir people nicknamed "Salqam Jäñgir" (impressive) as the historians to Jangir were characterized by his qualities such as determination, perseverance, endurance and willingness to sacrifice. Th ...
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Haqnazar Khan
Haqnazar Haider Sultan bin Qasim Khan (), commonly known as Haqnazar Khan, was the khan of the Kazakh khanate from 1538-1580. He was the second-oldest son of Qasim Khan and the younger brother of Muhammed Khan. Haqnazar's name comes from the Arabic word "хақ", which means "truth, correctness" and the Turko-Persian word "Nazar," which means "vision". For much of his early life, Haqnazar was simply called by his middle name "Haider", which was given to him in honor of Kasım Khan's Shaybanid uncle, Sheikh Haidar. He only went by "Haqnazar" after succeeding Ahmed Khan and Toghym Khan as the ruler of the Kazakhs. Under Haqnazar Khan, also known as Haq-Nazar or Khaknazar Khan or Ak Nazar Khan, the Kazakh Khanate faced competition from several directions: the Nogai Horde in the west, the Khanate of Sibir in the north, Moghulistan in the east and the Khanate of Bukhara in the south. Haqnazar Khan began to liberate the occupied Kazakh lands. He returned the northern region ...
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Ahmet Khan
Aḥmed Shāh bin Janysh Sultan (, romanized: ''Ahmed Şah bin Janyş Sūltan''), also known as Ahmed Khan, was a Khan of the Kazakh Khanate who ruled the western part of modern-day Kazakhstan as well as the upper reaches of the Syr Darya river from 1533 to 1536. Through his father, Janysh Sultan, he was a nephew of the great ruler Qasim Khan, the fourth khan of the Kazakh Khanate. Ahmed resided in Hazrat-e-Turkistan, the capital and largest city of the Kazakh Khanate, as well as Sawran, another major Kazakh settlement established during the time of his uncle and father. Ahmed also lived in northern Kazakhstan near modern-day Astana and Pavlodar for much of his life, as he fought a war of succession for the Kazakh throne. Biography After the death of Kasim Khan, presumably around in 1521, his oldest-son, Muhammad Khan, (aka Mamash Khan) became the new khan. Muhammad's reign was short-lived. In 1522, a civil war broke out between the descendants of Janibek Khan for the th ...
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