Eset Kotibaruli

Eset Kotibaruli (Kazakh: Есет Көтібарұлы, Eset Kötıbarūly) (1803–1889), sometimes Izzat (or Izzet) Kutebar, was the leader of the wars against Khiva and Kokand khanates, the head of an anti-colonial uprising and the leader of the national liberation movement of Kazakhs. He was a Kazakh rebel and guerrilla leader who was active from the 1820s to 1858. He first robbed the Bukhara caravan in 1822, and was at his height as a raider and scourge of the Russian invaders in the 1840s. They eventually persuaded him to suspend his activities and rewarded him with a gold medal, but he rebelled again in the early 1850s. He was captured in 1854, but he either escaped or was released.

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