Central Asia

Central Asia

Central Asia is a region in Asia. There are different definitions of exactly what Central Asia includes. A delimitation which covers 9,029,000 km 2 or 21% of Asia’s area, says: KAZAKHSTAN (Asian part) CHINA (Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces) KYRGYZSTAN MONGOLIA TAJIKISTAN TIBET (part of China according to the UN) TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN Another delimitation (used by UNESCO) is: AFGHANISTAN (parts of) INDIA (parts of) IRAN (northeast) CHINA (westernmost parts and Xinjiang)…

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Kyrgyzstan Arts and Literature

Kyrgyzstan Arts and Literature

Literature Like other Central Asian literature, the Kyrgyz also has its roots in the poetry of acynes (folk songs) with its lamentations and didactic pieces. Here there is a rich treasure of fairy tales, legends and proverbs, but above all the great epic about the national hero Manas, comprising more than 500,000 rows (recorded in excerpts first in 1856). Notably, among the Kyrgyz acynes was Toktogul Satylganov, one of the…

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