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Religious Site Attractions In Taraz

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Taraz is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas River in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyzstan. It had a population of 330,100 , up 9% from 1989, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, after Astana and Turkistan. One of the oldest cities in Kazakhstan and in Transoxania, built and populated by the ancient Sogdians, Taraz celebrated its official 2000th anniversary in 2001, dating from a fortress built in the area by a Xiongnu Chanyu named Zhizhi and was a site of the Battle of Zhizhi in 36 BCE. The city was first recorded under the name Talas in 568 CE by Menander...
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  • 2. Central Mosque Taraz
    Dungan is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Chinese origin. Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in northwestern China also refer to members of this ethnic group as Dungans. In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of Hui that came to Central Asia. In the censuses of the now independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans, who are enumerated separately from Chinese, can be found in Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , and Russia .
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