Gurkestan

Gurkestan (Kazakh: Гүркестан) (Russian: Гуркестан) Officially the Republic of Gurkestan (Kazakh: Гүркістан Республикасы) (Russian: Республика Гуркестан) was a nation that was located in Central Asia, mainly located in what was West Kazakhstan. The nation had 3 states, Mangystau Province, Atyrau Province and West Kazakhstan Province. The capital of Gurkestan was Atyrau City. The nation bordered Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Gurkestan also shared a small sea border with Azerbaijan along the Caspian Sea, which was the nation's only oceanic border, meaning that Gurkestan was a landlocked country. Gurkestan was comprised of 3 major population centres where the majority of the population and economic activity of Gurkestan occurs, these were Atyrau City, which was the nation's most populous city and also the capital of the country, followed by Oral and Aktau. Gurkestan's landscape largely consists of deserts which are located throughout the country in abundance, Gurkestan also had steppes mostly within the north of the country. Some outlining regions of Gurkestan are mostly along the coast which included some scattered pockets of marshes mostly south of Atyrau City, in the country's western borders with Russia, the vital Volga Delta was an important location for Gurkestan for economic, political and cultural reasons. The Volga Delta also had a swampland region which serves as Gurkestan's only fertile region for farming, giving the area a large amount of population and economic growth. Due to this Gurkestan had highly fortified and militarised the region from potential invasions across the Volga.
== Assassination of Nurzhan Daurenov ==
Main article: Assassination of Nurzhan Daurenov
On the afternoon of the 16th of September 2023, Gurkestan's President, Nurzhsna Daurenov was assassinated in a surprise airstrike by the Kazakhstan Air Force. The air force used a SU-24 plane with a KH-29 missile. This ultimately caused the start of the Gurkestan-Kazakhstan War, which is often referred to as the Second Gurkestan-Kazakhstan War not to be confused with the Gurkestan War of Independence. 
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