khanate of Khiva

…the somewhat peripheral khanate of Khiva, while the khanate of Bukhara usually patronized writing in Persian. The major literary texts in Chagatai during the 17th century were the historical writing of the Khivan khan Abū al-Ghāzī Bahādur—notably his Shajare-i Tarākime (1659; “Genealogical Tree of the Turkmen”) and Shajare-i Turk (completed…

The khanates of Bukhara and Khiva (Khwārezm) were established by two branches of the Shaybānid dynasty, which won control of Transoxania from the Timurids in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Shaybānids were replaced at Bukhara successively by the Astrakhanids and the Mangits. A third state, the khanate…

…cities of Bukhara and Samarkand), Khiva (northwest of Bukhara on the Amu Darya), and Kokand (centred in the Fergana Valley in the east).

…became the centre of the khanate of Khiva under the Uzbek Ilbar dynasty. Khiva repelled invasions from Russia in 1717 and 1839, but in 1873 it was conquered and made a Russian protectorate. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the khanate was abolished and replaced by the Khorezm People’s Soviet…

…Bukhara and the khan of Khiva, they left a substantial part of the population, especially the urban classes, most deeply devoted to the Islamic way of life, under traditionally minded Muslim rulers.

Having extinguished the khanate of Khiva in 1919 and that of Bukhara in 1920, local Red Army units found themselves engaged in a protracted struggle with the Basmachis, guerrillas operating in the mountains in the eastern part of the former khanate of Bukhara. Not until 1925 did the…

…centre of trade in the khanate of Khiva, Urgench now has several light industries and a music and drama theatre. Pop. (2014 est.) 137,300.

…the 15th century (Bukhara and Khiva [Khwārezm]) and the third in the mid-18th century (Kokand). In Bukhara the most famous poets were Mujrim Obid, one of the best lyric poets of the late 18th and early 19th century; Turdī, a follower of Navāʾī who wrote Sufi poems, although the character…