Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan
The largest ethnic group in Kazakhstan is the Kazakhs, who make up 63.1% of the population. Next are the Russians, at 23.7%. Smaller minorities include Uzbeks (2.8%), Ukrainians (2.1%), Uyghurs (1.4%), Tatars (1.3%), Germans (1.1%), and tiny populations of Belarusians, Azeris, Poles, Lithuanians, Koreans, Kurds, Chechens and Turks.
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Kazakhs

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Kazakhs
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of Eastern Europe and the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Mongolia). Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by foundation of the Kazakh Khanate in 1456 1465. The formation of Khanate began when several tribes under the rule of sultans Janybek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu'l-Khayr Khan.

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Kazakhstan
The largest ethnic group in Kazakhstan is the Kazakhs, who make up 63.1% of the population. Next are the Russians, at 23.7%. Smaller minorities include Uzbeks (2.8%), Ukrainians (2.1%), Uyghurs (1.4%), Tatars (1.3%), Germans (1.1%), and tiny populations of Belarusians, Azeris, Poles, Lithuanians, Koreans, Kurds, Chechens and Turks.
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Kazakhstan
The largest ethnic group in Kazakhstan is the Kazakhs, who make up 63.1% of the population. Next are the Russians, at 23.7%. Smaller minorities include Uzbeks (2.8%), Ukrainians (2.1%), Uyghurs (1.4%), Tatars (1.3%), Germans (1.1%), and tiny populations of Belarusians, Azeris, Poles, Lithuanians, Koreans, Kurds, Chechens and Turks.
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RUSSIA
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The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous people. As of the 2010 census, 80.90% of the population that disclosed their ethnicity (111,016,896 people) is ethnically Russian, followed by (groups larger than one million)
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RUSSIANS
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The Russians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries. They are the most numerous indigenous people of the Russian Federation (more than 80% of the population, according to the census of 2010 ) CENTRAL/NORTH ASIA

Russian culture started from that of East Slavs, who were largely polytheists, and had a specific way of life in the wooden areas of Eastern Europe. The Scandinavian Vikings, or Varangians, also took part in the forming of Russian identity and state in the early Kievan Rus' period of the late 1st millennium AD. Rus had accepted the Christianity from the East Roman Empire in 988, and this largely defined the Russian culture of next millennium as the synthesis of Slavic and Byzantine cultures
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After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Russia remained the largest Orthodox nation in the world and claimed succession to the Byzantine legacy in the form of the Third Rome idea. At different points of its history, the country also was strongly influenced by the European Culture, and since Peter the Great reforms Russian culture largely developed in the context of the Western culture. For most of the 20th century, the Marxist ideology shaped the culture of the Soviet Union, where Russia, or Russian SFSR, was the largest and leading part.
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Language
Russian is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages. Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards.
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Religion
Around 63% of the Russia's population identify themselves with Orthodox Christianity, most of whom belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, which played a vital role in the development of Russian national identity. In other countries Russian faithful usually belong to the local Orthodox congregations which either have a direct connection (like the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, autonomous from the Moscow Patriarchate) or historical origin (like the Orthodox Church in America or a Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) with the Russian Orthodox Church. CENTRAL/NORTH ASIA

Culture
Russian culture is extremely various and unique in many aspects. It has a rich history and can boast a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of arts, especially when it comes to literature and philosophy, classical music and ballet, architecture and painting, cinema and animation, which all had considerable influence on the world culture.
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The Russian People

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The Russian People

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The Russian People

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Uzbekistan
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Uzbeks
The Uzbeks (Ozbek, pl. Ozbeklar) are the largest Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmeni stan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
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CULTURE of UZBEKS
Islam 13th Century Mongols and Turks

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Georgia
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Georgia has been fundamentally a white/black state, with minimal ethnic diversity. Most Georgians are of English or Scotch-Irish descent. The number of Georgians who were foreign born rose dramatically between 1990 and 2000, from 173,126 (or 2.6% of the population) to 577,273 (7.1%). The 1990 figure was, in turn, a considerable increase over the 1980 total of 91,480 foreign-born Georgians and the 1970 figure of 33,000.
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Major Ethnic Groups

The American Indian population in Georgia was estimated to be 21,737 in 2000. The great Cherokee nation and other related tribes had been effectively removed from the state 150 years earlier. About 5.3% of the population (435,227 people) were of Hispanic or Latino origin as of 2000.

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Largest Ethnic Group

Georgians are the largest ethnic group in Georgia which make up 83.8% of the countrys population

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Language
Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (83% of the population). It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages (or Kartvelian languages): Svans, Megrelians, and the Laz. Gruzinic, or "Kivruli", sometimes considered a separate Jewish language.
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Religion
Orthodox Christian is Georgias main religion (83.9%), followed by the Muslim, 9.9%; Armenian-Gregorian, 3.9%; and lastly the Catholic which makes up 0.8%.

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Culture
Warm hospitality a very Georgian trait. Age, position and power usually earn respect. As with most European and North American nations, gifts are usually given at birthdays and at Christmas, however in Georgia they also have "name days" - these are the birth dates of Saints whom people are named after. Table manners are generally unfussy and relaxed. Meals are above all a time to get together and enjoy.

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Georgians

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Kyrgyzstan
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Life amongst the nomadic Kyrgyz was extremely harsh and there was a high infant mortality rate. As a result birth and childhood were associated with many beliefs, superstitions and rituals - many with "shamanistic" overtones. Many of these have survived to the present day. Usually, the Kyrgyz families had many children, as the head of family was responsible to continue his lineage - and hence boys were highly regarded as they would enable this to happen. A man, who did not have a son, was a very unhappy person as his family line had to stop with him. The Manas epos opens with the childless Djakyp's expressing grief because he has no son to carry on his name and care for him in his old age. If the wife of a nomad could not have children, (or she was just gave birth to girls), then he could marry a second wife, or even a third although this is not practiced today.

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There is a phrase amongst the Kyrgyz that when a daughter is born the family is not raising a child of their own, they are raising a child for someone else. If she is later stolen as a bride, the grooms family may well call her parents with the news, You no longer have a daughter she is our daughter now. Her allegiances now switch from being to her natural family, to her husband and his. Another interesting saying is: "The birth of a girl is an addition to the herd, the birth of a boy is an addition to the defenders". Life was not necessarily easy for children. They are expected to undertake tasks from an early age. The girls would learn mainly domestic tasks, helping the older women, whilst the boys might be assigned to look after some of the livestock. Idle, or lazy, children would be castigated and criticized ... for example, it might be said that: "hopeless Aybek's son is still a baby after ten years". There are several aspects related to "growing up" in traditional Kyrgyz society ... from the cradle to the grave, names given to children, family life and festivals (rites of passage), respect for elders ... and so forth.

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KYRGYZ

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Tajikistan
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Tajiks
Tajiks comprise around 79.9% of the population of Tajikistan.This number includes speakers of the Pamiri languages, including Wakhi and Shughni, and the Yaghnobi people who in the past were considered by the government of the Soviet Union nationalities separate from the Tajiks. In the 1926 and 1937 Soviet censuses the Yaghnobis and Pamiri language speakers were counted as separate nationalities. After 1937 these groups were required to register as Tajiks.
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Tajiks

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Religion
Islam, the predominant religion throughout Central Asia, was brought to the region by the Arabs in the 7th century. Since that time, Islam has become an integral part of Tajik culture. Sunni Islam is, by far, the most widely practiced religion in Tajikistan. the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim, (approximately 95% Sunni and 3% Shia)
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Cuisine
Tajik cuisine has much in common with Uzbek, Afghan, Russian, Iranian, and northern Pakistani cuisine, and is developed from Persian cuisine. It is known for dishes such as kabuli pulao, gabili palau, and samanu. The national food and drink are plov and green tea, respectively. Traditional Tajikistani meals begin with small dishes of dried fruit, nuts, and halva, followed by soup and meat, and finished with plov. Tea accompanies every meal, and is often served between meals as a gesture of hospitality. It is often drunk unsweetened. Tajik cuisine offers a large variety of fruit, meat, and soup dishes.

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