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Kalmyk
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Kal·myk 1  (klmk, kl-mk) also Kal·muck or Kal·muk (klmk, kl-mk)
n. pl. Kalmyk or Kal·myks also Kalmuck or Kal·mucks or Kalmuk or Kal·muks
1. A member of a Buddhist Mongol people now located primarily in Kalmyk.
2. The Mongolian language of this people.

[Russian, from Kazan Tatar.]

Kal·myk 2  (klmk, kl-mk)
A region of southwest Russia on the Caspian Sea. Settled in the early 17th century by Kalmyk people from central China, it came under Russian control after 1646.


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In 1730 one of the khans of the Junior Horde sought Russian support against the stronger Kalmyks who were passing through the Great Steppe on their move from Mongolia to North Caucasus, and Russia, in exchange for help, gained control of this Horde.
In an area where Chechens, Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, Dagestanis, Ossetians, Kalmyks, Russians, Kurds, Turks, and many other ethnicities and tribes jockey for control of land and trade routes, conflicts are frequent, often bloody, and almost incomprehensible to those foreign to the region.
The show might have seemed to be hurtling along the same path as those Stalin-era folk exhibitions in which Kazakhs, Kalmyks, and Chukchi danced with mad gusto under the hammer and sickle.
 
 
 
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