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On 15 December 1990, the Supreme Soviet voted to change the republic's name to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. In January 1991, Akayev introduced new government structures and appointed a government consisting mainly of younger, reform-oriented politicians. On 5 February 1991, the capital's name, Frunze, was changed to Bishkek.
The name of Kyrgyzstan rendered in the traditional script in use from the 13th century to 1920 . Kyrgyz is the state language of Kyrgyzstan. Russian is additionally an official language. Kyrgyzstan is one of five former Soviet republics to have Russian as a de jure official language, along with Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. [132]
The name Kyrgyzstan or Kirghizstan means 'land of the forty tribes', combined from three words: kyrg (kyrk) meaning 'forty', yz (uz) meaning 'tribes' in East Turkic, and -stan meaning 'land' in Persian. [5] Politically, the name of the republic was the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic as stated in the 1937 and 1978 constitutions.
Kyrgyzstan history-related lists (4 P) History of Bishkek (6 P) A. Archaeology of Kyrgyzstan (2 C, 1 P) D. Defunct organisations based in Kyrgyzstan (2 C) E.
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A rival myth, recorded in 1370 in the History of Yuan, concerns 40 women born on a steppe motherland. [17] Nomads in Kyrgyzstan. The earliest records of the ethnonym appear to have been the Chinese transcriptions Gekun (鬲昆, LH *kek-kuən < Old Chinese: *krêk-kûn) and Jiankun (堅昆, LH *ken-kuən < OC: *kên-kûn).
Name (Birth–Death) Picture Took office Left office Elected Political party 1: Askar Akayev (1944–) 27 October 1990 [a] 24 March 2005: 1991: Independent: 1995: 2000 — Ishenbai Kadyrbekov (1949–) 24 March 2005 25 March 2005 — Independent: 2: Kurmanbek Bakiyev (1949–) 25 March 2005 [b] 7 April 2010 — Independent (March – August 2005)
Kyrgyzstan is the only former Soviet Central Asian republic to start out with two official languages, in this case Russian and Kyrgyz.An aggressive post-Soviet campaign was established to make the latter the official national language in all commercial and government uses by 1997; Russian is still used extensively, and the non-Kyrgyz population, most not Kyrgyz speakers, are hostile to ...