Yenisei Kyrgyz
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The Yenisei Kyrgyz were an ancient Turkic people who dwelled along the upper Yenisei in the southern portion of the Minusinsk Hollow from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The heart of their
Court of Seljuk ruler Tughril III, circa 1200 CE.
Funerary mask, towards the end of the Tashtyk culture, at the time when the Yenisei Kyrgyz were taking over the region. 5th-6th century CE.
Yenisei Kyrgyz artefacts
Yenisei Kyrgyz tableware and altar
Minusinsk Hollow
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Minusinsk Basin or Khakass-Minusinsk Basin is in Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located among mountains of South Siberia.
Yenisei Kyrgyz
…Old Turkic: 𐰶𐰃𐰺𐰴𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, romanized: Qırğız bodun) were an ancient Turkic people who dwelled along the upper Yenisei in the southern portion of the Minusinsk Hollow from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The heart of their homeland was the forested Tannu-Ola mountain range (known in ancient times as the…
Yenisey River
Minusinsk steppe. Painting by Vasily Surikov.
Gora Afanasieva mountain, type site of the Afanasievo culture, Minusinsk Basin.