Kyrgyzstan is a recently independent country with an ancient
culture. Until 1991 it was a part of the USSR, previous to that,
beginning in about 1850 it was a part of the Russian Empire.
From ancient times, until becoming part of the Russian Empire,
the Kyrgyz were an important people associated with the states
of Central Asia and China from ancient times. The attached websites
give access to many aspects of Kyrgyz culture and history.
For Library of Congress contact information and materials, consult
the Kyrgyzstan
Country page of the Near East Section of the African and
Middle Eastern Division. The Library
of Congress Online Catalog. To track bills and other Congressional
materials having to do with the topic consult the Library’s Thomas
Legislative Information page.
Address/Telephone
Directories from Central Asia at the Library of Congress
( http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/phoneca/caphone.html)
This is a finding aid for telephone directories from the countries of Central
Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It consists of over 60 entries representing the
Library of Congress' uncataloged holdings of Soviet and post-Soviet era titles
as of January 2007. It is arranged by country, then by city, and then by the
year prominently displayed on the cover of the piece.
CIA
-- The World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html)
An annual publication of the CIA, contains up-to-date information on all aspects
of the political, social and military history of a particular country.
DMOZ Open Directory Project
- Kyrgyzstan (http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/)
Major website giving access to many important subject areas.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Infoplease (http://www.infoplease.com/)
Part of the electronic Learning Network, this homepage allows searches by country
which yield articles in almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical works,
etc. Additional reference links are provided as well.
International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international
weather information by city.
Islamic Calendar
Converter (http://www.oriold.unizh.ch/static/hegira.html )
This English language website not only converts the present Gregorian date, in
common use in the West, to its modern Hijra equivalent (in common use in the
Islamic World), it also provides a mechanism, based on software developed by
Waleed A. Muhanna, to convert all past dates from Gregorian-Hijra or Hijra-Gregorian.
Kyrgyzstan
Resource Page (http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/index.shtml)
A general news and resource page produced by Eurasianet.org
Library of Congress Country
Study: Kyrgyzstan (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kgtoc.html)
Handbook on Kyrgyzstan produced be the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress.
U.S. Department of State - Background
Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the
countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include
facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions,
economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several
languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization
as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations,
etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.
United States. Department of State (http://www.state.gov)
Numerous documents concerning diplomatic and international relations, travel
advice and warnings relating to the countries of the world are available on the
State Department’s official site by searching under a particular country’s
name.
World Desk Reference: Kyrgyzstan (http://travel.dk.com/wdr/TM/mTM%5FIntr.htm)
Website giving general information about contemporary Kyrgyzstan.
Worldskip.com (http://www.worldskip.com/)
A search by country in this website yields basic narrative information about
it.
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