- Junior Jüz
Junior Juz ( _kz. Кіші жүз) or Alshyns ( _kz. Алшын) are the Western subgroup of the
Kazakhs . They originate from theNogais of theNogai Horde , which once was placed in Western Kazakhstan, but in the 16th cnetury it was defeated by the Kazakhs and the Russians and Nogais retreated to the Western part of their khanate, to theKuban River steppes. In the 18th century they endanged inner Russian cities, so Russian Empire allied theKalmucks to supplant Alshyns back to theUrals . There they formed the JuniorJüz . In the beginning of the 19th century they shifted some to the west, toAstrakhan Governorate , formingBukey Horde there. Whereas the Russians considered them to be a part of Kazakhs since the 18th century, their self-determinationd wasn't Kazakh, but Alshyn up to the 20th century. As theKazakh SSR was formed with Bukey Horde as the most remoted it's western part, situated geographically in theEurope . At the Soviet epoch the theme of non-Kazakh origin of Alshyns was tabooed. Even today they are not completely assimilated to the Kazakhs.Constituent tribes
* "Alimuly" ( _kz. Әлімұлы)
* "Bayuly" ( _kz. Байұлы)
* "Jetiruw" ( _kz. Жетіру)References
*ru icon [http://www.zonakz.net/articles/17818]
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