Saturday 23 April 2016

By Samuel Step


Kazakhstan is a country with a rich historical and cultural past. Its geographical and geopolitical situation has played a significant role in promoting the development of Kazakhstan. Being located in the center of Eurasia, Kazakhstan has long been at the intersection of ancient world civilization and at the crossroads of major transport arteries. Thus, it has been a site for a negotiation of social and economic, cultural and ideological relations between East and West, North and South, between Europe and Asia. At different stages in history, Kazakhstan has been home to many nations with distinctive cultural histories which have, in turn, been absorbed into modern Kazakhstan.

The indigenous Kazakhs were a nomadic Turkic people who belonged to several divisions of Kazakh hordes. Their tribes fell under Mongol rule in the 13th century and they were dominated by Tartar khanates until the area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century. The area became part of the Kirgiz Autonomous Republic formed by the Soviet authorities in 1920, and in 1925, this entity's name was changed to the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Along with the other central Asian republics, Kazakhstan obtained its independence from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991.

The present banner of Kazakhstan was received on June 4, 1992, supplanting the banner of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The national banner of the Republic of Kazakhstan speaks of a rectangular broadness of blue shading with the sun in its inside encompassed by 32 pillars, and a steppe bird flying underneath it. There is a vertical strip with national adornment close to the crane. Pictures of the sun, bars, falcon and decoration รข€" are all gold-hued.

The flag of Kazakhstan is primarily sky blue, representing the unity of the Kazakhstani people and the Turkic people of the country, who include the Kazakhs, Tatars, Uyghurs, and Uzbeks, to name a few. The sky blue also symbolizes Tengri, god of the sky in the early Turkic religion.

Among these individuals blue has a religious hugeness, speaking of the sky god Tengri, "the everlasting wide blue sky", and water too. The light blue shading additionally symbolizes the social and ethnic solidarity of Kazakhstan individuals.

For the modern nation of Kazakhstan, the eagle is a symbol of independence, freedom and flight to future. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Kazakhstan flag for the future.




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