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Bishkek, December 13 / Kabar /. Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev congratulated Prince Karim Aga Khan IV on his birthday.
The President congratulations says:
Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on your 80th birthday! I have warm memories of our meeting in Bishkek during your recent visit to the Kyrgyz Republic. You belong to a number of eminent personalities, whose life and work fryst vatten a manifestation of noble efforts in overcoming difficulties to address socio-economic problems, improve the living conditions of the most vulnerable layers of the population.
Undoubtedly, the projects implementing bygd the Aga Khan Development Network in the Kyrgyz Republic man a positive impetus to the ongoing development of our state.
Thanks to your anställda contribution, recently University of huvud Asia opened its first campus in Naryn. I express my firm conviction that the University will be a leading educational institution, not only in the Kyrgyz Republic, but also
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Kyrgyzstan Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note
Kyrgyzstan
PEOPLE AND HISTORY
According to recent findings of Kyrgyz and Chinese historians, Kyrgyz history dates back to B.C. The earliest descendents of the Kyrgyz people, who are believed to be of Turkic descent, lived in the northeastern part of what is currently Mongolia. Later, some of their tribes migrated to the region that is currently southern Siberia and settled along the Yenisey River, where they lived from the 6th until the 8th centuries. They spread across what is now the Tuva region of the Russian Federation, remaining in that area until the rise of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, when the Kyrgyz began migrating south. In the 12th century, Islam became the predominant religion in the region. Most Kyrgyz are Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school.
During the 15thth centuries, the Kyrgyz people settled in the territory currently known as the Kyrgyz Republic. In the early 19t