It was during this time that they met shamanic musician Gendos Chamzyryn from Tuva and as a trio, they toured Altay villages in the summer of 1998.

Tuvan throat singing is practiced by the Tuva people of southern Siberia.

Tuva is a part of Russia, inhabited by a Turkic people related to the nearby Mongolians.

The Khakas people are Turkic, and their culture, including music, has some similarities to the culture of Tuva, a neighboring region in Central Asia.

There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China.

) Unlike the throat singers in other regions of the world, particularly Tibet, Mongolia and Tuva, the Inuit performers are usually women who sing only duets in a kind of entertaining contest to see who can outlast the other.

The Tibetan Buddhist schools, based on the lineages and textual traditions of the Kangyur and Tengyur of Tibet, are found in Tibet, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal, southwestern and northern China, Mongolia and various constituent republics of Russia that are adjacent to the area, such as Amur Oblast, Buryatia, Chita Oblast, the Tuva Republic and Khabarovsk Krai.

Many of these styles are also practiced around neighboring regions such as Tuva and Altai.

The ROC's constitution still raises claims of sovereignty over Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau – territories that today constitute the PRC – but, according to some interpretations, also over Mongolia, Tuva ( Russia ), and other, minor areas which today are part of Afghanistan, Myanmar, India and Japan.

Over 75 % of population of Tuva are ethnic Tuvans.

Smaller parts of the population are composed of Uriankhai ( 7. 2 %), Dörvöd ( 1. 5 %), Khalkha, Tuva and Khoshuud.

There are several different versions, Mongolian ( in the country of Mongolia and in Tuva of Russia ), Buryatian ( in the Buryatia of Russia ) and Inner Mongolian ( in northern China ).

In Tuva, the pinna open on the first day of birth and are completely open after three days of development.

The spike fiddle variants are very commonly used by many East and Central Asian ethnic groups and their diaspora around the world, such as the Huqin variety used by most ethnic groups of China, the morin khuur of Mongolia, the Byzaanchy of Tuva, the Kokyū of Japan, Haegeum of Korea, kyl kiak of Kyrgyzstan, Saw sam sai of Thailand and many others.

Perhaps the best-known musical form of the Mongols is the throat singing tradition known as hoomii, extant among all or most Mongols though best known internationally from Tuva.

The historic region of Tannu Uriankhai, of which Tuva is a part, was controlled by the Mongols from 1207 to 1757, when it was brought under Manchu rule ( Qing Dynasty, the last dynasty of China ) until 1911.

Tuvan ( Tuvan: Тыва дыл Tyva dyl ), also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia.

In Tuva, numerous cultural influences collide: the Turkic roots it shares with Mongolia, Xinjiang Uighur and the Central Asian states ; various Siberian nomadic ethnic groups, principally those of the Tungus-Manchu group ; Russian Old Believers ; migrant and resettled populations from the Ukraine, Tatarstan and other minority groups west of the Urals.

# Tuvаn ( Turkic ; in the Tuva Republic )

The languages of the Beltirs and Tuvans still contain common words not found in the language of the other Khakas ( Kachins or Sagays ).< ref ></ br > which cites from Other Russian documents mention Yeniseian Kyrgyz ( Saryglar and Kyrgyz ), Orchaks ( Oorzhaks ) and Kuchugets ( Kuzhugets ) moving into Tuva from the north.

He continued to claim sovereignty over all of China, including the territories held by his government and the People's Republic, as well as territory the latter ceded to foreign governments, such as Tuva and Outer Mongolia.

The Kuomintang claims sovereignty over Mongolia and Tuva as well as the territories of the modern People's Republic and Republic of China.

* 1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U. S. S. R

In 1912, the Republic of China officially succeeded the Qing Dynasty, while Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Tuva proclaimed their independence.

Tuva and several regional states in Eastern Europe, the Baltic, and Central Asia had been fully annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II.

It is also practiced in Mongolia and parts of Russia ( Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Tuva ) and Northeast China.

During the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Red Army troops took Tuva in January 1920, which was also part of the Qing Empire of China and a protectorate of Imperial Russia.

Inner Mongolia is distinct from Outer Mongolia, which was a term used by the Republic of China and previous governments to refer to what is now the independent state of Mongolia plus the Republic of Tuva in Russia.

The spectacular Scythian grave-goods from Arzhan, and others in Tuva have been dated from about 900 BC onward.

Forty-four pounds of gold weighed down the royal couple in this burial, discovered near Kyzyl, capital of the Siberian republic of Tuva.

The Sayan Mountains ' towering peaks and cool lakes southwest of Tuva give rise to the tributaries that merge to become one of Siberia's major rivers, the Yenisei River, which flows north over 2000 miles to the Arctic Ocean.

Paul Pena was featured in the documentary Genghis Blues which tells the story of his pilgrimage to Tuva to compete in their annual throatsinging competition.

* Tuvinian People's Republic, also Tannu Tuva ( 1921 – 1944 ) Achieved independence from China by means of local nationalist revolutions only to come under the domination of the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

In 1944, Tannu Tuva was absorbed into the Soviet Union.

The ROC, which took control of Taiwan ( including Penghu and other nearby islands ) in 1945, ruled mainland China and claimed sovereignty over Outer Mongolia ( now Mongolia ) and Tannu Uriankhai ( part of which is present day Tuva, Russia ) before losing the Chinese Civil War and relocating its government to Taipei, Taiwan in December 1949.

Irkutsk Oblast borders with the Republic of Buryatia and the Tuva Republic in the south and southwest, with Krasnoyarsk Krai in the west, with the Sakha Republic in the northeast, and with Zabaykalsky Krai in the east.

*" Ancient spirit and might preserved by indigenous people of Altay.

The Altay people have a legend about the name of the lake in their language, which means Golden Lake.

* Altay people, an ethnic group.

For the obsolete term for the Turkic Altays, see Altay people.

* Altay people

The Turkic ancestors of the Chuvash people are believed to have come from central Siberia, where they lived in the Irtysh basin ( between the Tian Shan and Altay ) from at least the end of the third millennium BC.

Amongst them are small groups ( such as those in Namibia ) and many very large groups ( such as the almost 1 million non-evacuated Germans in Russia and Kazakhstan or the near 500, 000 Germans in Brazil ), groups that have been greatly " folklorised " and almost completely linguistically assimilated ( such as most people of German descent in the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Brazil ), and others, such as the true linguistic minorities ( like the still German-speaking minorities in the USA, Argentina and Brazil, in western Siberia or in Romania and Hungary ); other groups, which are classified as religio-cultural groups rather than ethnic minorities, ( such as the Eastern-Low German speaking Mennonites in Paraguay, Mexico, Belize or in the Altay region of Siberia ) and the groups who maintain their status thanks to strong identification with their ethnicity and their religious sentiment ( such as the groups in Upper Silesia, Poland or in South Jutland in Denmark ).

Category for articles relating to the Altai or Altay, a mountain range and people spead across four countries in Central Asia: Altai Republic and Altai Krai in Russia ; eastern Kazakhstan ; Xinjiang in China ; and western Mongolia.

This belief can be seen with the Tungusic peoples in Southern Siberia and the Altay people.

Of particular interest are the sketches of the Mongols and the people of Samarkand and its vicinity, the account of the land and products of Samarkand in the Ili Valley at or near Almalig-Kulja, and the description of various great mountain ranges, peaks and defiles, such as the Chinese Altay, the Tian Shan, Bogdo Uula, and the Iron Gates of Termit.

Their culture and origins are similar to those of the northern Altay people and some of the ethnic groups of the Khakas.