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The Yenisey [8] (/ ˌ j ɛ n ɪ ˈ s eɪ / YEN-iss-AY; Russian: Енисе́й, pronounced [jɪnʲɪˈsʲej]) [a] is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.
Despite this, Yeniseian languages played a significant role in Chinese, Mongolian, and Central Asian history. Both the ruling elite of the Xiongnu and that of the Later Zhao dynasty appear to have spoken, at least partially, Yeniseic. It has been suggested that the part of the Xiongnu underwent a linguistic shift from Yeniseian to Turkic.
The Yenisei Inscriptions are a series of Old Turkic inscriptions from the 8th-10th century CE, found near Yenisei Kyrgyz kurgans located in the Upper and Middle basins of the Yenisei River in modern-day Russia in Khakassia, Tuva and the Altai Republic.
Yenisei Kyrgyz artefacts Yenisei Kyrgyz tableware and altar Yenisei Kyrgyz agricultural tools Elegest inscription Culturally and linguistically, the Yenisei Kyrgyz were Turkic. The Tang Huiyao (961 CE), citing the Protector General of Anxi Ge Jiayun, states that the Kyrgyz, known to the Chinese as the Jiankun, all had red hair and green eyes.
The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown and surrounded by golden oak leaves connected by St. Andrew's ribbon. The coat of arms of the Yenisei Governorate was approved on July 5, 1878 by the All-Russian Emperor Alexander II. In 1886, decorations were removed from the city shields by the armorial department under the Department of Heraldry.
The Tashtyk culture [a] was a Late Iron Age archaeological culture that flourished in the Yenisei valley in Siberia from the 1st century CE to the 4th century CE. Located in the Minusinsk Depression, environs of modern Krasnoyarsk, eastern part of Kemerovo Oblast, it was preceded by the Tagar culture and the Tesinsky culture.
Yeniseysk was founded in 1619 as a stockaded town—the first town on the Yenisei River. [2] It played an important role in Russian colonization of East Siberia in the 17th–18th centuries. Its location is due to the Siberian River Routes from the Urals, up the Ob, up the Ket River and over a portage to Yeniseysk and from there to the Yenisei ...
The son of Genghis Khan, Juche, conquered the Kyrgyz tribes of the Yenisey region, who by this time had become disunited. At the same time, the area of present-day Kyrgyzstan was an important link in the Silk Road, as attested by several Nestorian gravestones.