For example, since the 16th century, the Kazakh tribe, known also as “Kazakhlu” or “Kazakhlar”, had been wandering in the Southern Caucasus. They established the Kazakh Sultanate, ruled by ‘khans’. After having been annexed by Russia, the Kazakh Sultanate was abolished in 1819, that is, only three years before the liquidation of the ori

for approval from the Russian authorities. The Junior Zhuz, which was and still is composed of three parts, Baiuly, Zhetiru, and Alimuly (Karakesek), had accordingly been divided into three hordes. And each of them had chosen their leader (bii). Syrym Datov was elected as a kind of overall leader (ulybii) of all three hordes. Nuraly Khan became res

Tarkhan Aldar Isekeyev. Then, in addition to that, he also became Khan of the Junior Zhuz Kazakhs In the summer of 1730, Aldar Isekeyev arrived at Abulkhair’s headquarters, located on the Irgiz River. What they talked about almost 300 years ago is unknown. What is known is that on September 8, 1730, they wrote a letter to Empress Anna Ioannovna,

who had set off on the path with the expedition to Khiva and who would later play a pivotal role in convincing Abulkhair and the Alshyn tribal leaders to take the oath of allegiance to Russia, avoided being killed by the Khivans because Bekovich-Cherkassky had a bit earlier sent him on a mission to India via Persia. He was captured halfway through

Approximately one hundred years after those events, the population of that region, who has never felt some belonging to the Genghisid political and legal tradition before or since, chose Abulkhair, descendant of Genghis Khan, to be their ruler. That concession seems to have been in large part attributable to the obvious hopelessness of the situatio