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Title: | Toponymy of the ancient Sary-Arka (North-Eastern Kazakhstan) | ||||||||||
Author: | Saparov, Kuat; Chlachula, Jiří; Yeginbayeva, Aigul | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | Quaestiones Geographicae. 2018, vol. 37, issue 3, p. 35-52 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0137-477X (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2018-0024 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | This study examines the etymology of the principal physiographic entities of the ancient Sary-Arka area-meaning in the old Turkic language Yellowing Ridge - encompassing the present territory of parkland-steppes, rocky highlands and the adjacent mountains of North and East Kazakhstan. The current linguistic evidence points to a complex and chronologically long culture-historical development reflected by the local place names best-recorded for the major rivers and mountains (hydronyms and oronyms, respectively). Not all geo-site names are securely determined by using modern onomastics. Records of material culture provide additional multi-proxy information. Local uniformity of some toponyms across the extensive area assuming a common cultural background attests to a broader ethnic homogeneity and/or mobility of the ancient populations inhabiting this vast and geomorphically mosaic land. This suggests a close relationship and interactions (including demographic exchanges and mixing) between the past pastoral ethics in the parkland-steppe and semi-desert areas north of Lake Balkhash between the Aral Sea and the southern Urals in the West and the Alatau-Altai Mountain systems in the East. Whereas the hydronyms of the Sary-Arka may have a rather complex and not fully clear origin with a connection to the Turkic-Tatar medieval tribes and nations' occupancy in northern Central Asia eventually modified into the present Kazakh language forms, the oronyms of the East Kazakhstan mountain ranges indicate the Mongolian roots. © 2018 Kuat Saparov et al., published by Sciendo 2018. | ||||||||||
Full text: | https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/quageo/37/3/article-p35.xml | ||||||||||
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