Ulytau Mountain Kazakhstan Ulytau. Places in Kazakhstan
Ulytau is the great Mountains, it is the historical centre of Kazakh people, nomadic culture epicenter of steppe civilization. The greatness of these mountains is contained in the significance of the events of national history, occurred here and connected with the unification of Kazakh Kins. Ulytau has been the favourite place of nomadic tribes Khans Joshi Khan the eldest Chingizkhans sun had formed his headquarters here, Batye had started his march to the East from this place. There is Joshi Khan mausoleum, Kultuk-Temirs, Bolgan-ana's, Kelyn-tanvs mazars The mausoleum over the Alash Khan's grave, who had been one of the Turkic tribes founders Tokhamysh-the gold Ordas Khan. Edige-the great military leader, amir of gold Orda, whose name is mentioned in the Altai, Ural, Northern Coucasus, Crimea, Uzbekistan peoples epics has remained forever in the I Ulytau mountains. The great Tamerlan left memory about his I staying in the Ulytau on the slab on the Altynshoky mountain In spring 1391.
Numerous sites of primitive people, their implements have been discovered by archaelogists. One the largest workshops of paleolithic epoch in Kazakhstan was found on the bank of the bank of the Karakengir river. In all river valleys the bronze epoch monuments-settlements, necropolisis, czars burial places of begazy-dandybayer culture were revealed.
The mystery of so called "barrows with whiskers" hasn't been unraveled up to now yet. Some of the the people consider them tombs, the others think that they are ancient observatory, someone-that they are ritual complex.
Archaelogists excavations let us know that native tribes were engaged in mining and metal-lurgical affair as far back as 3 thousand years and they exported copper, tin, silver and gold to Iran, India, Greece, as Gerodot "the dad of the history" mentions about it.
Ulytau is called as a "country of lakes and springs". The healing characteristics of Ulytau mountain spring water have been known far from the bounds of this region. European and Russian ambassadors stayed to take a cure in the Ulytau spring water intentionally, while they were making their way to Karakorum the main headquarters of mongols.
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