The Kazakhs wore only their white nike swift jerseys during the tournament because blue jerseys were not available.

Europe was exposed to several waves of invasions by horse people, from the Cimmerians in the 8th century BCE, down to the Migration period, and the Mongols and Seljuks in the High Middle Ages, and the Kalmuks and the Kyrgyz and later Kazakhs down into modern times.

Despite setbacks in the south, overall the Qianlong Emperor's military expansion nearly doubled the area of the already vast empire, and brought into the fold many non-Han-Chinese peoples — such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Evenks and Mongols — who were potentially hostile.

Thousands of Kazakhs were killed, and thousands of others fled to China and Mongolia.

Thousands more Kazakhs tried to escape to China, although most starved in the attempt.

Kazakhs and Hui Muslims are largely alienated from the movement, as are Uyghurs who live closer to the eastern provinces of China.

The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs ; ; the English name is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ( largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia ).

* Kazakhs ( qazaq ), an ethnic group of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Turkey

With the breakup of the Empire, the dispersed Mongols quickly adopted the mostly Turkic cultures surrounding them and were assimilated, forming parts of Tatars ( not confused with a tribe in ancient Mongolia ), Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yugurs and Moghuls ; linguistic and cultural Persianization also began to be prominent in these territories.

In the period of tsarist administration ( 1876 – 1917 ), the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz both were called Kyrgyz, with what are now the Kyrgyz subdenominated when necessary as Kara-Kyrgyz " black Kyrgyz " ( Turkic groups often used color terms to show division of the same group based on geography ; black referred to southern groups ).

When distinction had to be made, more specific terms were used: Burut ( буруты ), Kara-Kirghiz ( кара-киргизы ) or " Dikokamennye Kirgizy " ( дикокаменные киргизы ) for the Kyrgyz proper, and Koisaks for the Kazakhs .< ref >

It has 154, 100 inhabitants ( 2007 ), up from 142, 500 ( 1999 census ), 90 % ethnic Kazakhs ( up from 80 %), the rest being mostly Russians and other ethnic groups such as Tatars and Ukrainians.

Oghuz Turks ( also known as Turkmens ), Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Khazars, Kyrgyz, Hazara and Uyghurs are some of the Turkic inhabitants of the region who, as history progressed, have spread further into Eurasia forming such Turkic nations as Turkey and Azerbaijan, and subnational regions like Tatarstan in Russia and Crimea in Ukraine.

Some speculate that it comes from the Turkish verb qaz ( to wander ), because the Kazakhs were wandering steppemen ; or that it derives from the prototurk word khasaq ( a wheeled cart used by the Kazakhs to transport their yurts and belongings ).

While the Qing forces in Huiyuan successfully repelled the next attack of the rebels ( 12 December 1864 ), the rebellion kept spreading through the northern part of the province ( Dzungaria ), where the Kazakhs were glad to take revenge on the Kalmyks that used to rule the area in the past.

As a result, the use of Kazakh language has declined but has started to pick up again after the independence, both as a result of its resurging popularity in law and business and growing proportion of Kazakhs since the Independence.

In 1936, after Sheng Shicai expelled 20, 000 Kazakhs from Xinjiang to Qinghai, Chinese Muslims led by General Ma Bufang massacred their fellow Muslim Kazakhs, until there were 135 of them left.

In more recent times, Kazakhs have gradually employed determined effort in revitalizing Islamic religious institutions after the fall of the Soviet Union.

When the local Muslim Kazakhs and Kyrgyz felt that the rebels gained the upper hand, they joined it as well ; on the other hand, the Buddhist Kalmyks, and Xibe mostly stayed loyal to the Qing government.

After expansion by Turkic peoples, Central Asia also became the homeland for many Turkic peoples, including the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Kyrgyz and Uyghurs.

The Kazakhs were traditionally divided into three parts – the Great jüz, Middle jüz, and Little jüz.

Forced westward in what they call their Great Retreat, the Kazakhs were increasingly caught between the Kalmyks and the Russians.

Starving and displaced, many Kazakhs joined in the general Central Asian Revolt against conscription into the Russian imperial army, which the tsar ordered in July 1916 as part of the effort against Germany in World War I.

Many Kazakhs and Russian fought the communist takeover and resisted their control until 1920.

The Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was set up in 1920 and was renamed the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925 when the Kazakhs were differentiated officially from the Kyrgyz.

In that period, over a million Kazakhs and 80 percent of the republic's livestock died.

Conquest says that the application of party theory to the Kazakhs, and to a lesser extent to the other nomad peoples, amounted economically to the imposition by force of an untried stereotype on a functioning social order, with disastrous results.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

The name of the ethnic majority are Kazakhs.

The proportion of Kazakhs makes up 63. 6 %, Russians 23. 7 %, Uzbeks 2. 9 %, Ukrainians 2. 1 %, Uygur 1. 4 %, Tatars 1. 3 %, Germans 1. 1 %, others 3. 9 %.

( The term Kara-Kyrgyz was used until the mid-1920s by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who were also referred to as Kyrgyz.

Most of this trade is in barter conducted by ethnic Kyrgyz or Kazakhs who are Chinese citizens.

Tibetans and Mongols refused to allow other ethnic groups like Kazakhs to participate in the Kokonur ceremony in Qinghai, until the Kuomintang Muslim General Ma Bufang forced them to stop the racism and allowed them to particapate.

He dictated a letter and ordered German General Hans Krebs, under a white flag, to meet with General Vasily Chuikov and to deliver his letter.

Determined not to be called an Uncle Tom, he refused to deliver the principal's carefully prepared valedictory address that would not offend the white school officials and finally convinced the black administrators to let him ad a compromised version of what he had written.

Four of White's Novotnys in these variations are executed by the rook on b5 — only the rook will do in those variations, because the square it comes from, b5, must be vacated for the white knight to deliver mate.

This class of timber treatments use white spirit, or light oils such as kerosene, as the solvent carrier to deliver preservative compounds into timber.

When working a mounted route, city letter carriers usually drive distinctive white vans with the logo of the United States Postal Service on the side and deliver to curbside and building affixed mailboxes.

* At least three Kill Bill references originate with this film: Pai Mai's introduction scene references the stairway and water training scene, Pai Mai himself though in white in Kill Bill is the blind orange master monk ( who in Kill Bill blinds Elle ), and finally the five point finger exploding hand technique comes from the end battle scene of Shaolin Wooden Men where the villain uses a special punch technique on the protangontists but is only able to deliver 4 of the 5 blows ( with the protagonist holding his heart as Bill does right before dying ).

Perhaps his most frequently-used weapon is his sound amplifier ( often referred to as his " white sound blaster " in the comic books ; the Teen Titans animated series calls it a " sonic cannon "), which can be employed at various settings either to stun the ears of his foes or to deliver concentrated blasts of sound potent enough to shatter rock or deform steel.

A selfmate is a chess problem in which white, moving first, must force black to deliver checkmate within a specified number of moves against his will.

The delivery service clerk, Sandy ( Karl Swenson ), urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R / T 440 Magnum to San Francisco by Monday.

When seeking to reserve space for his wife to deliver their baby, the American Hospital refused on the grounds that the white Americans in the hospital did not want to be mixed with black patients.

In 2002, the NHS National Programme for IT ( NPfIT ) was announced by the Department of Health, initially to work with the NHSIA to deliver the Healthcare IT for the 21st Century white paper.

Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line ( his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate ), and when the problem was published it was with the stipulation that white mates with " the least likely piece or pawn ".

They used electric vans, that were painted in red with a black swastika on a white background, to collect and deliver laundry to customers.

Mambres then devised a plan to appoint the white bull as the new bull god Apis, and sent four magical animals, a raven, she-ass, dog, and dove to deliver a letter to the High Priest of Memphis, so that the priests could come and worship the new bull.

They deliver sessions on kayaking, white water rafting and canoeing, away from the water they deliver sessions about climbing and mountain biking and help local schools in there delivery of the DofE scheme.