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.

A new constitution was passed by the parliament in May 1993 and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan was renamed the Kyrgyz Republic.

* Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic

The United States helped the Kyrgyz Republic accede to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in December 1998.

U. S. assistance aids the Kyrgyz Republic in implementing necessary economic, health sector, and educational reforms, and supports economic development and conflict resolution in the Fergana Valley.

* June 4 – Violence breaks out in the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeks over the distribution of homestead land.

After the Russian Revolution, a Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union was created, which was eventually split into the Kazakh SSR ( Kazakhstan ), Kyrgyz SSR ( Kyrgyzstan ), Tajik SSR ( Tajikistan ), Turkmen SSR ( Turkmenistan ) and Uzbek SSR ( Uzbekistan ).

* Odyssey Guide: Kyrgyz Republic by Ceri Fairclough, Rowan Stewart and Susie Weldon

* Laws of the Kyrgyz Republic

At least four commercially targeted endemic fish species are sufficiently threatened to be included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz Republic: Schmidt's Dace ( Leuciscus schmidti ), Issyk-Kul Dace ( Leuciscus bergi ), Marinka ( Schizothorax issyk-kuli ), and Sheer or Naked Osman ( Diptychus dybovskii ).

In 1952, the Torugart Pass replaced the Irkeshtam Pass, which lies some southwest, as the primary overland link between Xinjiang and the then-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic.

Although the Kyrgyz Republic ratified the Lisbon Recognition Convention in 2004, it is not a State party to the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe, and there is – as far as is known – no consideration of expanding the geographical scope of this Convention.

It therefore seems clear that the Kyrgyz Republic is not eligible to join the Bologna Process under the criteria defined in Berlin.

There is a National Artist of Kyrgyz Republic who performs on the instrument, temir komuz.

The University was founded in 2000 by the governments of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, and His Highness the Aga Khan.

He has also been awarded the Gwanghwa Medal by the Republic of Korea, and the Chingiz Aitmatov Gold Medal by the Kyrgyz Republic.

Populations in parts of the former Soviet Union not now part of Russia are: Kyrgyz Republic 5, 390, Turkmenistan 3, 490, Uzbekistan 14, 175, Kazakhstan, ( 34, 370 ), Azerbaijan ( 1, 150 ), Estonia ( 985 ), Armenia ( 920 ).

Sharipov was the first cosmonaut of the Kyrgyz Republic.

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

( 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.

It also has supported the Kyrgyz Republic's requests for assistance from international organizations.

Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz (,, ) is a Turkic language and one of the two official languages of Kyrgyzstan, the other being Russian.

The Kyrgyz ( also spelled Kirgiz, Kirghiz ) are a Turkic people living primarily in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyz also means " imperishable ", " inextinguishable ", " immortal ", " unconquerable " or " undefeatable ", presumably referring to the epic hero Manas who, as legend has it, unified undefeated forty tribes against the Khitans.

In the 18th and 19th century European writers used the word " Kirghiz " ( the early Anglicized form of the contemporary Russian " киргизы ") to refer not only to the people we now know as Kyrgyz, but also to their more numerous northern relatives, the Kazakhs.

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.

It is also a popular sport among the south Central Asians such as the Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Turkmens and Pashtuns.

In the West, the game ( Turkish: Cirit ) is also played by Kyrgyz Turks who migrated to Ulupamir village in the Van district of Turkey from the Pamir region.

The highest peak in the Tian Shan is Victory Peak ( пик Победы in Russian or Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyz ) which, at, is also the highest point in Kyrgyzstan and is on the border with China.

Kyrgyz folk music is characterized by the use of long, sustained pitches, with Russian elements also prominent.

The kyl kiak, however, is also an important symbol of Kyrgyz identity.

The Meskhetian Turkish dialect has also borrowed from other languages ( including Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, and Uzbek ) which the Meskhetian Turks have been in contact with during the Russian and Soviet rule.

Kipchaks ( also spelled as Kypchaks, Kipczaks, Qipchaqs, Qypchaqs, Kıpçaklar, Arab geograhers Kyfchaks ) ( Turkic: Kıpçak, ), Crimean Tatar: Qıpçaq, Karachay-Balkar: Къыпчакъ, Uzbek: Qipchoq, Қипчоқ, Kazakh: Қыпшақ, Kumyk: Къыпчакъ, Kyrgyz: Кыпчак, Nogai: Кыпчак, Chinese: 欽察 / 钦察, Qīnchá ), were a Turkic tribal confederation.

Aside from the remaining Dzungars they were also joined by the Kyrgyz peoples and the Muslim Uyghur tribes in East Turkestan.

The ethnic Kyrgyz have also preserved pre-Islamic traditions and customs.

In 1938 the Kyrgyz ASSR, which incorporated the southern portion of Zhetysu, also became a Soviet Republic.

* NBP also has branches / offices in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Bahrain, Egypt, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, The People's Republic of China, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.

2005 also saw the largely peaceful ousting of Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev in the Tulip Revolution and an outbreak of violence in Andijan, Uzbekistan.

* The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan ( also sometimes called the " Pink Revolution ") was more violent than its predecessors and followed the disputed Kyrgyz parliamentary election, 2005.

In addition to Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Arabic, and the Persian dialect Dari, it is also found in Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Panjabi, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Azeri, Maltese, Hungarian, Polish, German, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Greek, Romanian, French, Italian and Dutch.

In the view of the Kyrgyz people, Umay not only protects children, but also Turkic communities around the world.