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    Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva, Хива, خیوه; Persian: خیوه, Xīveh; alternative or historical names include Orgunje, Kheeva, Khorasam, Khoresm, Khwarezm, Khwarizm,...
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    The Khanate of Khiva (Chagatay: خیوه خانلیگی, romanized: Khivâ Khânligi, Persian: خانات خیوه, romanized: Khânât-e Khiveh, Uzbek: Xiva xonligi, Turkmen:...
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  • Look up Khiva in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khiva is a city in Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan. Khiva may also refer to: FK Khiva, a football club based...
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    Khanate of Khiva, which was a major center of slave trade in Central Asia from the 17th-century until the annexation of Russian conquest of Khiva in 1873...
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    over several decades. In 1839, Russia failed to conquer the Khanate of Khiva south of the Aral Sea. In 1847–1853, the Russians built a line of forts...
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  • FK Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva futbol klubi) is an Uzbekistani football club based in Khiva. It currently plays in the Uzbekistan First League. FK Khiva plays in...
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    others) Kath, Gurganj (now Konye-Urgench) and—from the 16th century on—Khiva. Today Khwarazm belongs partly to Uzbekistan and partly to Turkmenistan...
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  • The siege of Khiva was a military operation between 19 and 24 January 1924 by Basmachi insurgents to conquer the city of Khiva from the Red Army. While...
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    Khiva, Shovot, and Pitnak. The climate is a typically arid continental climate, with cold winters and extremely hot, dry summers. The city of Khiva in...
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    Russia conquered the Khanate of Khiva, and it became a Russian protectorate. Twice before, Russia had failed to subjugate Khiva. In 1717, Prince Bekovitch-Cherkassky...
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    the Armed Forces and later the de facto and last ruler of the Khanate of Khiva. Born into the Turkmen tribe of Yomut, Muhammet Gurban was the son of a...
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    emirate's capital, Bukhara. It was contemporaneous with the Khanate of Khiva to the west, in Khwarazm, and the Khanate of Kokand to the east, in Fergana...
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  • expedition of Khiva is a religious pilgrimage to secure the city as a "sacred Ark". Sometime well into the campaign's progress towards Khiva, the Fleet is...
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    Bahadur II (c. 1847–1910) was Khan of Khiva from 1864 to 1910, succeeding his father Sayyid Muhammad Khan. Khiva was turned into a Russian protectorate...
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    10th–18th century mosque in Khiva, Uzbekistan. It is one of the principal monuments of Itchan Kala, the walled old city of Khiva, which is a World Heritage...
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    Khan, to establishing a British agent to Khiva and to mediate between Khiva and Russia. Abbott set off from Khiva in 1840 towards Russia to commence negotiations...
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    Hejaz Indonesia Iran (Qajar) Iraq Jabal Shammar Kandy (Sri Lanka) Kathiri Khiva Korea Kumul Kurdistan Laos Maguindanao Mahra Maldives Manchukuo Mongolia...
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    the Khan of Khiva to abolish the capture and selling of Russian slaves in Khiva. This likely forestalled the Russian conquest of the Khiva, although it...
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    Hejaz Indonesia Iran (Qajar) Iraq Jabal Shammar Kandy (Sri Lanka) Kathiri Khiva Korea Kumul Kurdistan Laos Maguindanao Mahra Maldives Manchukuo Mongolia...
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    Khorezm People's Soviet Republic (category Khanate of Khiva)
    Sovetskaya Respublika) was the state created as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva in February 1920, when the Khan abdicated in response to pressure. It was...
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  • Khan (and fourth ruler) of the Uzbek Kungrat dynasty in the Khanate of Khiva. He reigned from 1806 to 1825. He ascended the throne after the tragic death...
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    Hejaz Indonesia Iran (Qajar) Iraq Jabal Shammar Kandy (Sri Lanka) Kathiri Khiva Korea Kumul Kurdistan Laos Maguindanao Mahra Maldives Manchukuo Mongolia...
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    Khiva District (Uzbek: Xiva tumani, Хива тумани, خیوه تومنى) is a district of Xorazm Region in Uzbekistan. The capital lies in the city of Khiva, itself...
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    (present day Uzbekistan) from antiquity until the 19th-century. Bukhara and Khiva were known as the major centers of slave trade in Central Asia for centuries...
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  • Uzbek Kungrat dynasty in the Khanate of Khiva. He reigned between 1856 and 1864. In 1855, the 7th ruler of Khiva, Muhammad Amin Bahadur Khan, tragically...
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  • Revolt of 1912–1913 was a revolt by Yomud Turkomans against the Khanate of Khiva. Its causes lay in opposition to the taxation reforms of Isfandiyar Jurji...
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    but not the protectorates of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva. It was populated by speakers of Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tajik...
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    tribes were under the nominal control of two sedentary Uzbek khanates, Khiva and Bukhoro. Turkmen soldiers were an important element of the Uzbek militaries...
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    this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at times Transoxiana (Mawarannahr)...
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    Isfandiyar Khan (category Khans of Khiva)
    Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, was the Khan of Khiva between September 1910 and 1 October 1918, the 53rd Khan of Khiva, and the 12th Khongirad ruler of the Uzbeks...
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