Overview of Almaty
According to history the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan was set on the place of the ancient settlement Almaty, which dates from the III century BC.
In 1854 it was developed as a frontier fort at the border of the Russian Empire.
For the first time the city has been named Vernyi, later Alma-Ata and now - Almaty.
The name "Almaty" derives from the Kazakh word for "apple", and thus is often translated as a city "rich with apples".
The older Soviet-era Russian version of its name, Alma-Ata, originates from a mistake (the name literally means "Grandfather of apples").
In the surrounding region, there is a great genetic diversity among the wild apples; the region is thought to be the ancestral home of the apple, and the wild Malus sieversii, is considered a likely candidate for the ancestor of the modern domestic apple.
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