ETHNONYMS IN THE TOPONYMY OF KARAKALPAKSTAN

Abstract

This article is devoted to the ethnotoponymy of Karakalpakstan. Ethnotoponyms of Karakalpakstan, as their special research has shown, could first of all be devided into the following two groups: 1) toponyms formed from the names of the Karakalpak tribes and kins; 2) toponyms formed from the names of Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen tribes and kins. Toponyms of the first group are mainly found here.