 are considered descendants of Khongirads (Ongrat, Kungrat in Turkish) (Gumilev, n.d).Around the beginning of the 20th century CE, the Kazakh Qongırats lived mainly in what is now Turkistan Region (formerly South Kazakhstan Region), especially in the vicinity of the city of Turkistan.This region borders Uzbekistan, and a majority of the local population has at times been recorded as Uzbek; the part of the region in which the Kazakh Qongırats were concentrated was located between the Sır River and the lower reaches of the Chu River where it disappears in the steppe.