13 Facts About Kyrgyz Americans

When distinction had to be made, more specific terms were used:the Kyrgyz Americans proper were known as the Kara-Kirghiz, and the Kazakhs were named the Kaisaks.

Early Kyrgyz Americans people, known as Yenisei Kyrgyz Americans, have their origins in the western parts of modern-day Mongolia and first appear in written records in the Chinese annals of the Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, as Gekun (, ) or Jiankun ().

The Yenisei Kyrgyz Americans lived in the upper Yenisey River valley, central Siberia.

Later, in the Early Middle Ages, the Yenisei Kyrgyz Americans were a part of the confederations of the Gokturk and Uyghur Khaganates.

In 840, a revolt led by the Yenisei Kyrgyz Americans brought down the Uyghur Khaganate, and brought the Yenisei Kyrgyz Americans to a dominating position in the former Second Turkic Khaganate.

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Genetic makeup of the Kyrgyz Americans is consistent with their origin as a mix of tribes.

Low diversity of Kyrgyz Americans R1a1 indicates a founder effect within the historical period.

Kyrgyz Americans state reached its greatest extent after defeating the Uyghur Khaganate in 840 AD, in alliance with the Chinese Tang dynasty.

However, in the tenth-century Persian text Hudud al-'alam, the Kyrgyz Americans was still described as a people who "venerate the Fire and burn the dead".

Kyrgyz Americans began to convert to Islam in the mid-seventeenth century.

Kyrgyz Americans's emphasized that many mosques have been built and that the Kyrgyz are "increasingly devoting themselves to Islam".

In 1978, most Kyrgyz Americans inhabitants fled to Pakistan in the aftermath of the Saur Revolution.

Some Kyrgyz Americans returned to Wakhan in October 1979, following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.