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The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek/Ўзбек, pl. Oʻzbeklar/Ўзбеклар) are the largest Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan but are also found as a minority group in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and China. Uzbek diaspora communities also exist in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
The origin of the word Uzbek remains disputed. One view holds that it is eponymously named after Oghuz Khagan. Oghuz Khagan also known as Oghuz Beg, the word Uzbek is derived from the name of Oghuz Beg. Another states that the name means independent or the lord itself, from Oʻz (self) and the Turkic title Bek/Bey/Beg. There is another theory which holds that the pronunciation of Uz comes from one of the Oghuz Turks variously known as Uz or Uguz united with the word Bey or Bek to form uguz-bey, meaning "leader of an oguz".
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We have escaped narrowly, but still we breath
Shall we hide again in another place?
Or follow wise heart's words, maybe get
A piece of revenge! Until we would die…
Throwing its shadow on the rose
A lurking cloud of bitterness.
Thwarting the growing souls
Rising in our own consciousness.
We have now to take a pick
Even if regrets will strike our minds.
This emotion making me sick
It looks like the eyes of the blinds.
The outcome is always risky
But life isn't life itself a bet?
Counterweight of the glory
The only way to change a fate.
To raise one's hand is a deal,
To win or lose, the life or death,
That judge standing on a skulls hill
Does not always smile to boldness.
I want to put my soul into a sanctuary
To reach the ninth sphere and finally find peace…
Like a crystal ball,
my mind will soon break in thousands stars
It's time to make a stand
It's time to take our fate in hand!
White shroud of madness
Used as a shield quite foolishly.
Pay tribute to its frankness
And leave the way of heresy.
We have now to make a stand
And put our lives in the maelstrom.
We'll follow the path until the end
We'll be crying high "freedom!"
Freedom
Risks, regrets and courage are parts of a choice
And now we have to ignore that old emotion
Which had grown for so many years
Into our own hearts.
It sneaks in the mind by the smallest resentment
Feeding the violence, compost of destruction
Immersing weaken hearts in a crimson torrent
To hear it, that's run to the worst decision. Hate!
Like a crystal ball,
my heart is crying so care it all
It's time to make a stand,
It's time to take our fate in hand!
Like a crystal ball,
my mind will soon break in thousands stars
It's time to make a stand