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    Almaty

    Former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city

    Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains in southern Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, Almaty stands as a pivotal center of culture, commerce, finance and innovation. The city is nestled at an elevation of 700–900 metres, with the Big Almaty and Small Almaty rivers running through it, originating from the surrounding mountains and flowing into the plains. Almaty is the second-largest city in Central Asia and the third-largest in the Eurasian Economic Union. Almaty served as the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997 during the Soviet era and after independence from 1991 until the capital was relocated to Aqmola in 1997. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Almaty, [a] formerly Alma-Ata, [b] is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. [8] ... In recorded history prior to the late 19th century, three catastrophic earthquakes are known to have taken place there. The following are the dates of occurrence and extracts from the ...
  3. britannica.com

    Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan. The city lies in the northern foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau. It remains the country's largest city and an important industrial center and has a number of cultural institutions, including museums, performance centers, and the world's second tallest wooden building.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Almaty, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan. 19th century. Part of a series on the. History of Kazakhstan; Ancient. Scythia: Saka: Wusun: Kangju Kingdom ... Central State Archives of Recent History headquartered in city. [9] Akhmetzhan Yesimov becomes head of Alma-Ata regional government. [18 ...
  5. Home; Kazakhstan; Almaty; History; History of Almaty Echoes of Past Centuries. Almaty history. The city of Almaty. The history of the region began long before a military fortress was founded on the Malaya Almatinka River, in the foothills of the Alatau Mountains, in the middle of the 19 th century.. As early as the Late Bronze Age, in the 10-9 th centuries BC, the area was inhabited by settled ...
  6. britannica.com

    Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, City (pop., 2008 est.: 1,324,739), southeastern Kazakhstan.Formerly the capital of Kazakhstan, it lost its capital status in 1995 to Aqmola (now Astana). The modern city was founded in 1854, when the Russians established a military fortification on the site of the ancient city of Almaty, destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century.
  7. aboutkazakhstan.com

    Almaty history. Almaty was founded in 1854 when the Russians established the military fortification of Zailiyskoye (renamed Verny in 1855) on the site of ancient settlement of Almaty, which had been destroyed by Mongols in the 13th century.. Cossacks, peasant settlers from European Russia, and Tatar merchants soon established themselves in the vicinity, and in 1867 the fortification became the ...
  8. newworldencyclopedia.org

    The modern history of Almaty began on February 4, 1854, when the Russians established a fort named Zailiyskoye (renamed Verniy (Russian for "faithful" in 1855) on the site of the ancient settlement. It was a fenced pentagon with one of its five sides built along the river.
  9. en.unesco.org

    In the 10-14th centuries, settlements in the territory of the so-called "Greater Almaty" became part of the trade routes of the Silk Road. At that time, Almaty became one of the trade, craft and agricultural centres on the Silk Road and possessed an official mint. The city was first mentioned as Almatu in books from the 13th century.
  10. visitalmaty.kz

    Over 40,000 exhibits of the museum are divided into 11 eras, ranging from "Ancient History" to "Almaty in the Twentieth Century". This museum was one of the first created after the collapse of the USSR and in a short time it managed to collect a sufficient amount of interesting urban heritage. Photos and personal belongings, paintings ...
  11. tr-kazakhstan-en.org

    The history of settlement on the territory of the modern city of Almaty goes back to the 10th-9th centuries BC. e. , as evidenced by archaeological excavations. The Saka tribes, which today are evidenced by burial mounds, inhabited the modern Alma-Ata region back in the 6th-3rd centuries BC. Alma-Ata became the habitat of the Saka and later Uysun tribes.

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