Talgar

Talgar is a town in Almaty Region, southeastern Kazakhstan. It is the workplace of Talgar District. The town is located among Almaty and Esik, 25 km from Almaty and numerous kilometres east of Birlik. Population: forty five,529. There are several viable explanations for the city's call. The most apparent is that Talgar originates from a later changed call of an historical settlement of Talkhiz, situated in the Talgar suburbs. The first statistics of Talgar settlement had been made by way of a Persian geographer in a medieval geographical treatise Hudud al-'Alam in 982.

The agreement bore a call Talkhiz and turned into situated in the mountains of Semirechye on the borders of Turkic tribes Karluk and Chigils. The geographer defined population of Talkhiz as "courageous, martial, and valiant human beings". Scientists analyzed the call of the agreement and concluded it to were distorted via a copyist, in order that initially it sounded as “Talkhir”. However, Talkhir is a famous call in current Kazakhstan. A metropolis neighboring Almaty, its river and the highest top of Zailiisky Alatau additionally endure this call.