The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia).Kazakhs are descendants of the Turkic tribes - (Argyns, Khazars, Qarluqs; and of the Kipchaks, Turko-Mongol groups (Kiyat, Dughlat, Naimans, Nogais, Kerait, Onggirat, Manghud, Jalayir, Alshyn) and other Proto Turkic tribes such as the Huns, Kankalis, Wusun origin and Iranian tribes like the Sarmatians, Saka and Scythians.
Kazakhs populated the territory between Siberia and the Black Sea and remained in Central Asia when the Turkic and Turko-Mongolic groups started to invade and conquer the area between the 5th and 13th centuries CE.
