REPUBLIC OF KARAKALPAKSTAN

According to historical sources, people in the territory of Karakalpakia lived already in the Neolithic era. The territory of the modern Republic of Karakalpakstan is a kind of "archaeological reserve", which now has over 300 archaeological sites. In ancient times, this territory, together with the modern Khorezm region and adjacent regions of Turkmenistan, constituted Khorezm.