Advertisement
« previous next »
OK, one or two Soviet war memorials  
   

OK, one or two Soviet war memorials

Apples are from Kazakhstan

September 22nd 2016
Now that's a strange name for a blog you might say, and I actually agree with you! I have just set out for a 3 week tour of the '5 Stans' and as preliminary reading, I found this great book on Kazakhstan, and this was the title of the first chapter. Now whether their claim is true that apples were first found here, and whether Adam and Eve were in fact Kazakhs, is not really important, but I can a ... read more
Asia » Kazakhstan » Southern Kazakhstan

Kazakhstani Flag Native Kazakhs, a mix of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes who migrated into the region in the 13th century, were rarely united as a single nation. The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936. D... ... read more
Advertisement
Tot: 0.621s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 25; qc: 142; dbt: 0.298s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.5mb