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The article deals with issues related to new aspects of the formation of the Kazakh Khanate, whose 550th anniversary was widely celebrated in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2015. In the middle of the 15th century, the most important ethno-political processes took place in southeastern Kazakhstan, Zhetysu, associated with the creation of a new political association that went down in history as the Kazakh Khanate. This event determined the entire subsequent ethno-political history of Kazakhstan, contributed to the consolidation of the Kazakh people into a nation, the design of the ethnic territory, and the development of the spiritual and material culture of the Kazakh people.
The intensified inter-dynastic struggle between the descendants of Shyngys-Khan's eldest son Zhoshi Khan, which unfolded between the heirs of his sons Ordu-Ezhen and Shiban, led to the migration of the Shibanids Kerey and Zhanibek with their subjects to western Mogolistan. They were followed by the ethnonym “Kazakhs”, i.e. “migrated”, “separated”. The main written source for this period in the history of Kazakhstan is Muhammad Haydar Dulati's manuscript “Tarikh-i Rashidi”, written in the Central Asian dialect of Farsi.
The article explores some issues of the history of the area in the Zhetysu region, where the Kazakh Khanate was proclaimed. We are talking about the scientific research of Kemal Akishev, a famous Kazakh archaeologist, who identified the location of the Kozybasy area, located in the Zhambyl district of Almaty region.
As a result of military clashes between Sultans Kerey and Zhanibek and Khan of the Uzbek Ulus Abulkhair, the territory of the ulus became part of the Kazakh Khanate. Under Buryn Dyk Khan, the son of Kerey Khan, the Syrdarya cities became part of the khanate. Kasym Khan, Zhanibek's son, included most of the representatives of the Deshtikypchak nomadic Uzbek tribes among his subjects. Under Kasym Khan, the number of Kazakhs numbered about a million people, and the khanate reached its peak, the verge of
The states have expanded almost to the borders of modern Kazakhstan. The Kazakh Khanate is launching military campaigns against Tashkent, the Nogai capital of Saray-shyk, pushing the Nogai Horde back to the Astrakhan Khanate. It was during the reign of Kasym Khan that the Kazakh Khanate gained fame and political influence in modern Eurasia. One of the first states to establish diplomatic relations with the Kazakh Khanate was the Russian state. The Kazakh Khanate became known in Western Europe as a new political entity.