History of the Altay

ALTAY AND THEIR HISTORY: Originally as a nomadic life style, were orignally reconized as Oirot-Altains in the middle of the XIX century up to the beginning of the XXcentury.  Altains were broken into six tribes after the XVIII century in Central Asia. The tribes are the Altaians, Shors, Telengits, Uryanhaits, Oirots, and the Tubulars. They live in the Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast of the Russian Federation, in Western Mongolia, Sintzyan-Uigur Autonomus Region of China