Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz
Kyr·gyz or Kir·ghiz or Kir·giz (kîr-gēzʹ) n. pl. Kyrgyz or Kyr·gyz·es or Kirghiz or Kir·ghiz·es or Kirgiz or Kir·giz·es
1. A member of a traditionally nomadic people living principally in Kyrgyzstan.
2. The Turkic language of the Kyrgyz.

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people
also spelled  Kirgiz, or Kirghiz,  

      Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia, most of whom live in Kyrgyzstan. Small numbers reside in Afghanistan, in western China, and in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkey. The Kyrgyz language belongs to the northwestern, or Kipchak, group of the Turkic languages. The people are Muslim in religion.

      Like other Central Asian peoples, the Kyrgyz were traditionally nomadic and pastoral. During the second half of the 19th century, Kirgiziya (the country's Russian name) became a major area of Russian colonization, and much of the best land was given to Russian settlers. This was a major cause of the revolt of 1916, in the suppression of which the Kyrgyz suffered very heavily; whole villages were put to the torch, and nearly a third of the Kyrgyz fled to China. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Kirgiziya was the scene of much guerrilla opposition to the Soviet regime. From 1926 to 1959 there was a heavy influx of Russians and Ukrainians into the area, and the proportion of Kyrgyz in the total population fell from about 66 percent to 40 percent. The development of agriculture and heavy industry, along with the growth of cities, did much to change the traditional Kyrgyz way of life.

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