Qulan
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 Kazakhstan
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| Territory : | Shambyl | ||
| Audany: | Turar Rysqulov | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 55 ' N , 72 ° 43' E | ||
| Height : | 712 m | ||
| Residents : | 13,497 (Jan 1, 2020) | ||
| Time zone : | EKST ( UTC + 6 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+7) 72631 | ||
| Postal code : | 080900 | ||
| License plate : | 08 (old: H) | ||
| Location in Kazakhstan | |||
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Qulan ( Kazakh Құлан , Russian Кулан Kulan ; until 1992 Lugowoje / Луговое) is a place in the Shambyl region in southern Kazakhstan .
geography
Qulan is located in the Shambyl region in southern Kazakhstan and is the administrative center of Audany Turar Rysqulow . It is located around 110 kilometers east of Taras and 150 kilometers west of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek at the foot of the Kyrgyz Alatau .
history
Qulan was a place on the Silk Road in the Middle Ages . At the end of the 19th century, the first excavations began in the east of the village under the direction of Wassili Bartold . From 1936, archaeological excavations began by the Kazakh Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , which revealed that there was a settlement on this site as early as the 1st century. In the 7th century the place is mentioned in written records of the road network of the Chinese Tang Dynasty . Qulan is also mentioned in the records of Arab authors describing the places along the Silk Road from the 8th to 10th centuries. The area of the city was given as ten square kilometers, a significant size for this time. Soviet archaeologists discovered the remains of a palace in the 1960s. The excavation site has been part of the Silk Roads site since 2014 : the road network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor of the UNESCO World Heritage Site .
population
At the 1999 census, Qulan had 12,294 residents. The last census in 2009 showed a population of 15,380 for the place. The extrapolation of the population resulted in a population of 13,497 as of January 1, 2020.
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| 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 1999 | 2009 |
| 2.263 | 5,572 | 9,980 | 12,392 | 13,435 | 12,294 | 15,380 |
Sons and daughters of the place
- Älichan Qaranejew (* 1990), billiards player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Численность населения Республики Казахстан по полу в разрезе областей и столицы, столицы, столицы, анколицы, столицы, городоав, областей и столицы, анкония, горойцы, коники, городоав,. ( Excel ; 96 KB) stat.gov.kz, accessed on July 19, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Городище Кулан: 15 веков истории и династические тайны дворца. inform.kz, accessed April 7, 2020 (Russian).
- ^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed April 7, 2020 .
