Akespe () is a village in the

Aral District Aral (, , ارال اۋدانى) is a district of Kyzylorda Region in southern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Aral. Population: Geography Lake Zhaksykylysh lies in the district, about to the northeast o ...

Kyzylorda Region Qyzylorda Region (, ; ), formerly known as Kyzyl-Orda Region until 1991, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is the city of Qyzylorda, with a population of 234,736. The region itself has a population of 823,251. Other notable settlements incl ...

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. It is part of the Kosaman Rural District (KATO code - 433246200). Population: In 1925 a large site containing numerous fossils of the

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was discovered near Akespe by the Aral Sea shore.

History

Human settlement that was dated back to the

Neolithic era The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

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proves human presence in the area in

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Geography

The village is located by the Butakov Bay of the

North Aral Sea The North Aral Sea () is the portion of the former Aral Sea that is fed by the Syr Darya River. It split from the South Aral Sea in 1987–1988 as water levels dropped due to river diversion for agriculture. In 1925 a large site containing numer ...

, near the southern end of the Lesser Barsuki Desert.

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References

Populated places in Kyzylorda Region Aral Sea {{KyzylordaRegion-geo-stub