No, not like that. Kyrgyzstan gets it’s name form the forty tribes that combined to make the Kyrgyz people. Continue reading
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They named it for the apples
Kazakhstan is supposed to be where apples are from, and Almaty is in the home of the wild apple Malus sieversii, so you can expect to find a lot of trees.