Calpack, kalpak, or qalpaq (Karakalpak: калпак, Turkish: kalpak [kaɫˈpak]; Kazakh: қалпақ, Kyrgyz: калпак, both [qɑlˈpɑq]; Bulgarian: калпак; Greek: καλπάκι...

Ak-kalpak is a white felt hat that is traditionally worn by Kyrgyz men. Ak-kalpak takes its name from the Kyrgyz words "ak" (white) and "kalpak" (designating...

Qaraqalpaqs, while the Uzbeks call them Qoraqalpoqs. The word means "black kalpak" and has caused much confusion in the past, since historians linked them...

switch to a new alphabet (Yañalif). In July 1927, by decision of the Kara-Kalpak regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the regional...

Oskars Kalpaks (6 January 1882 – 6 March 1919) was the commander of 1st Latvian Independent Battalion, also known as "Kalpaks Battalion". Kalpaks was born...

Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Oblast قارا قالپاق اپتانومىيالى وبلىسى Қарақалпақ автономиялы облысы (Kazakh) Кара-Калпакская автономная область (Russian) Autonomous...

independence. Kara-Kalpak ASSR was formed on 20 March 1932 upon elevation of the Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Oblast into the Kara-Kalpak ASSR; from 5 December...

today): Kipchaks Kipchaks in Georgia Cuman people Cuman language Cumania Kalpak Except for the Southern "dialect", which is classified among the Western...

2021. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. "Glottolog 4.8 - Kara-Kalpak". glottolog.org. Retrieved 31 October 2023. Bolton, Roy (2009). Russian...

traditional folk garment, and as uniform headdress. A variation of bashlyk is the kalpak (qalpaq), a cone-shaped headdress without lappets, mostly made of leather...