Middle jüz is one of three main traditional divisions of the
KazakhThe Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
nation. The other two are Great jüz and Little jüz.
Middle jüz 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
HunsThe Huns were a group of nomadic pastoral people who, appearing from beyond the Volga, migrated into Europe c.AD 370 and built up an enormous empire in Europe. They were possibly the descendants of the Xiongnu who had been northern neighbours of China three hundred years before and may be the first...
. But tribes of modern Middle jüz were fully revealed to European accounts only during Genghis Khan's era.
A linguistic trace of jüz political organization can be found in semantically identical words of Church Slavonic meaning "links, cuffs".
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Middle jüz is one of three main traditional divisions of the
KazakhThe Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
nation. The other two are Great jüz and Little jüz.
Middle jüz 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
HunsThe Huns were a group of nomadic pastoral people who, appearing from beyond the Volga, migrated into Europe c.AD 370 and built up an enormous empire in Europe. They were possibly the descendants of the Xiongnu who had been northern neighbours of China three hundred years before and may be the first...
. But tribes of modern Middle jüz were fully revealed to European accounts only during Genghis Khan's era.
A linguistic trace of jüz political organization can be found in semantically identical words of Church Slavonic meaning "links, cuffs".
Constituent tribes
- Argyn
Argyn tribe is one of the main constituents of the Kazakh people, of possibly Mongol descent, and a main component in the Middle jüz sub-confederation in Kazakhstan, which historically consisted of three tribal conglomerations of Great jüz, Middle jüz, and Little jüz.Present Argyns in the Kazakh...
- Nayman
The Naimans, also Naiman Turks or Naiman Mongols, was a Mongolian name given to a group of people dwelling on the steppe of Central Asia, having diplomatic relations with the Kara-Khitai, and subservient to them until 1177...
- Qypshaq
- Qongyrat
The Onggirat or the Khunggirat is a Central Asian tribe, one of the major divisions of the Mongols. Variations on the name include Wangjila , Yongjilie , and Guangjila in Chinese sources and Ongrat or Kungrat in Turkish.The original pastures of the Khunggirats were in eastern Mongolia, near lake...
- Waq
- Kerey
The Keraits or Kereits were a cluster of tribes in central Mongolia before the rise of the Mongol Empire. They lived in the area between the Orkhon and the Kherlen rivers, to the east of the Naimans....
See also
- Little jüz
- Great jüz
- Kazakhs
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
- History of Kyrgyzstan
-Early history:Stone implements found in the Tian Shan mountains indicate the presence of human society in what is now Kyrgyzstan as many as 200,000 to 300,000 years ago...
- History of Kazakhstan
-Prehistory:Humans have inhabited present-day Kazakhstan since the earliest Stone Age, generally pursuing the nomadic pastoralism for which the region's climate and terrain are best suited. Prehistoric Bronze Age cultures that extended onto Kazakh territory include the Srubna culture, the Afanasevo...
- History of China
Chinese civilization originated in various city-states along the Yellow River valley in the Neolithic era. The written history of China begins with the Shang Dynasty . Turtle shells with ancient Chinese writing from the Shang Dynasty have been carbon dated to as early as 1500 BCE...