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Kyrgyz politician (1811–1907)

For the 2014 film, see Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains.

Kurmanjan Datka^[a] or Datka Kurmanjan Mamatbay kyzy (22 May, 1811 – 1 February 1907), also known as the Queen of Alai or the Queen of the South, was a Kyrgyz politician who acquiesced under duress to the annexation of that region to Russia.

She was a female tribal leader and nicknamed The Queen.^[1]

History

Kurmanjan was born into a wealthy family of the Mungush clan in the Osh region.^[2] At the age of 18 she was supposed to be married to a man whom she did not see until her wedding day.

When she met him, she did not like him and broke with tradition — first fleeing into neighboring China and later deciding to stay with her father, Mambatbai. In 1832, the local feudal lord, Alimbek, who had taken the title "Datka [ru]" and ruled all the Kyrgyz of the Alai, was attracted by the young, vivacious woman and married