- Middle Juz
Middle Juz (also Jüz) ( _kz. Орта жүз) is one of three main tradional divisions of the Kazakh nation. The other two are
Senior Juz andJunior Juz .Middle Juz consists of six tribes. The tribes, in turn, are subdivided into clans, creating a hierarchical piramid of affiliations. Some historians claim that Middle Juz have originated from first
Huns . But tribes of modern Middle Juz were fully revealed to european accounts only during Genghis Khan's era.A linguistic trace of Juz political organization can be found in semantically identical words of Church Slavonic meaning "links, cuffs". [ [http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fshare%2Fstarling%2Fmorpho&morpho=1&basename=%5Cusr%5Clocal%5Cshare%5Cstarling%5Cmorpho%5Cvasmer%5Cvasmer&first=1&on_word=on&text_word=%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7&method_word=substring&on_general=on&text_general=&method_general=substring&on_origin=on&text_origin=&method_origin=substring&on_trubachev=on&text_trubachev=&method_trubachev=substring&on_editorial=on&text_editorial=&method_editorial=substring&on_pages=on&text_pages=&method_pages=substring&text_any=&method_any=substring&sort=word Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary] ]
Constituent tribes
* "Argyn" ( _kz. Арғын)
* "Nayman" ( _kz. Найман)
* "Qypshaq" ( _kz. Қыпшақ)
* "Qongyrat" ( _kz. Қоңырат)
* "Uaq " ( _kz. Уақ)
* "Kerey" ( _kz. Керей)References
* S.Kudayberdy-Uly "Family tree of Türks, Kirgizes, Kazakhs and their Khan dynasties", Alma-Ata, Dastan, 1990 ru icon: [http://www.history.kz/ru.php Online Article]
See also
*
History of Kyrgyzstan
*History of Kazakhstan
*History of China
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