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名詞

zhuz (複数形 zhuzes)

1. Any of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kipchak Plain area that cover much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represent the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.
   • Mansur Mirovalev (2022-01-11), “Can centuries-old clan rivalry explain the crisis in Kazakhstan?”, in aljazeera.com‎^[1], Al Jazeera, retrieved 2022-01-17: “But the cornerstone of Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet wealth is the hydrocarbons drilled in the stomping ground of the Younger, or Minor Zhuz in the country’s west, next to the Caspian Sea, one of the biggest sources of untapped hydrocarbons on Earth.”