Kazakstan

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Kazakstan - a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazak, KazakhCIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991Alma-Ata, Almaty - the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizationsKazakhstani - a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan