The central and most populous of the three Kazakh hordes, associated with the great 18th-century khan Ablai (Abylai); it bore the brunt of the Kazakh-Dzungar wars and negotiated between the Russian and Qing empires before Russia abolished its khanship.
Khanate abolished by the Russian Empire in 1822 (Statute on the Siberian Kirghiz); reorganized into okrugs under the Omsk/Siberian administration. Not an ending of the Kazakh people.
Covers the Middle Horde, Ablai Khan, and the 1822 Siberian Statute abolishing its khanship.
Places the Kazakh hordes between the Russian and Qing empires in the 18th c.