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Alimuly (Kazakh: әлімұлы) is a tribal association within the Kazakh ethnos. According to shezhire (family tree) is part of the Younger Zhuz. Tamga looks like a double alshyns tamga. It has six branches, therefore the people call it “Alty ata alim”. According to shezhire, the famous akyn Erimbet, Alimuly includes Zhamanak (Shekty), Karamashak (Tortkara), Ainyk (Karasakal), Ulanak (Karakesek), Teginbolat (Karasakal), Toykozha (Ak Kete).

History of origin
The most numerous genera of the alimula are shektis and tortcaras. Such scholars as A. Konyratbaev, O. Smirnova associate the numerous numbers in the alimuly of the genus Shekta with the Bulgarian Kipchaks. In the book “Diuani lugat al-Türk” the tribe of Shekti is mentioned, living on the river Shu. It is also known that alimulys Shomekti, karakesek, kete belonged to the Western Turkic Khaganate. For 2 centuries (550-740) on the banks of the river. Shu, they formed the core of the Western-Turkic state and in 742-744 the Uighurs and the Karluks were cut into 2 parts - most of them fled to the west, the smaller one went to Kashgaria through the mountains. The Kazakh group all the time lived in the lower reaches of the river. Syrdarya and east of the Aral Sea. All this information points to the ancient history of the tribe.

Geography
Alimuly migrated from the banks of Irgiz to Karatau, lived in the lower reaches of the river Syr Darya - Kuandariya, Zhanadariya, Karakumdyk, in the vicinity of the lakes Kulakshy, Barbie - Kairakty. Some genera belonging to the alimuly migrated to the north of the Caspian Sea, reaching the rivers Zhem, Temir, Sagiz, Uil, Khobda, Zhaik, wintered in the vicinity of the Aral Sea, at the foot of the Mugadjar mountains, in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya. Representatives of some clans engaged in farming, erected permanent dwellings. Some of the clans that belonged to the tribe lived since ancient times in the neighborhood of the peoples inhabiting the Khorezm lowland. Most of them lived in the cities of Konyrat, Taktakopir of Karakalpakstan, were sedentary, engaged in farming, and those who inhabited the right bank of the Aral Sea - fishing. Only those who lived in the west of the Kyzylkum were engaged in nomadic animal husbandry.

The group of the Alimuly or Zhamanak-Karakesek clans, as this association is also called the ancient uran (battle cry) - milks (one of the subgenera of the Alimuly clan - Shekty (or Chekly). To the south-west of Kashgar, in the eastern part of the Alai mountains, now Kirgiz clans of Karakesek and Toit live, for a long time they live side by side and, according to legends, are related to modern Alimulians. Alimuly also have a kindred alliance between the Bayuly tribes and the Alumyan Beyuli clans together with the Alshyn clans. Also, the Kete clan, which is one of the clans of the Alimuly association, is also found among the Astrakhan Nogai and Turkmen.