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Zhambyl Province
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Zhambyl is a province of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Taraz. The population of the province is 962,000; the city is 330,000. The province borders Kyrgyzstan, and is very near Uzbekistan. Zhambyl also borders three other provinces: Qaraghandy Province, South Kazakhstan Province (Ongtüstik Qazaqstan), and Almaty Province. The total area is 144,000 square kilometers. The province borders Lake Balkhash (Balqash Köli) to its northeast.
See Taraz for the history of the provincial capital.
In the winter of 1877/78, a group of over three thousand Dungan, originally from Shaanxi, led by Bai Yahnu fled to Russian Empire after the defeat of the Muslim Rebellion in the North-Western China. In the spring of 1878, they were settled in the village of Karakunuz (Russian: Караконыз), in today's Zhambyl Privince. Their descendants still live there. In 1965, the village was later renamed Masanchi, after Magazi Masanchi (1885-1937), a en ethnic Dungan revolutionary and statesman of Soviet Kazakhstan.[1]
- ^ "Магазы Масанчи: по следам судьбы" (Following the destiny of Magazi Masanchi) Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 2005-Jul-12
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