(n) a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991, Syn. Kazakstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazak, Kazakh
[额尔齐斯河 / 額爾齊斯河, É ěr qí sī héㄜˊ ㄦˇ ㄑㄧˊ ㄙ ㄏㄜˊ] Irtysh river, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean#102192