27 Sept 2006

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I've been playing around recently with Wikipedia, and made a small contribution to that source of collective knowledge. As you have all obviously noticed, there is a dearth of information on Kazakhstan, so I decided to add some info on my "home town". It's tough to find reliable, free, unclassified information on Kazakhstan in general, let alone Aktobe, so I gave it my best. I also added some information on a few Kazakh historical figures, namely the confusingly named Abul-Khayr Khan, Abulkhair Khan and Ablai Khan. Kazakhs can keep them all straight, but something needs to be done to spread a little more knowledge of history on the step. No one even ever notices Central Asian history post-Chingis Khan ... but the Moghuls came from somewhere.

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