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Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva, Хива, خیوه; other names) is a district-level city of approximately 93,000 people in Khorazm Region, Uzbekistan. [2] According to archaeological data, the city was established around 2,500 years ago. In 1997, Khiva celebrated its 2500th anniversary. [3]
On 2 February 1920, Khiva's last Kungrad khan, Sayid Abdullah, abdicated and a short-lived Khorezm People's Soviet Republic (later the Khorezm SSR) was created out of the territory of the old Khanate of Khiva, before it was finally incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1924, with the former khanate divided between the new Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR.
The Khivan campaign of 1839–1840 was a failed Russian attempt to conquer the Khanate of Khiva. Vasily Perovsky set out from Orenburg with 5,000 men, met an unusually cold winter, lost most of his camels, and was forced to turn back after going halfway. Russians attacked Khiva four times. Around 1602, some free Cossacks made three raids on Khiva.
Painting made in the 19th century Von Kaufman portrait Russians entering Khiva 1873 (cropped) Muhammad Rahim Bahadur II, Khan of Khiva from 1863-1910 Khivan slave trade refers to the slave trade in the 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 ...
The courtyard (23x20) is surrounded by small one-story rooms (42 in total). There is a veranda on the second floor of the main house facing the courtyard. The mosque to the southeast of the madrasah has a dome, and its mihrab is decorated with tiles and ganchkori patterns. The tallest tower in Khiva (56.6 m) rises in front of it.
The palace was built from 1830 to 1841 for the ruler of the Khiva Khanate, Allah Kuli Bahadur Khan, and includes more than 260 rooms around three courtyards: that of the Harem in the northern part, that of the Ichrat Khaouli (Audience hall), built in 1830–1832, located in the southeast quarter and finally that of the Arz Khaouli (Court of ...
Konya Ark is located on the western side of the Itchan Kala, and covers. an area about 1.2 hectares. It was built in the 17th Century by the Khan of Khiva, Muhammad Erenke (Khan from 1687 to 1688), as an administrative centre for the Khanate of Khiva. The fortress was subsequently expanded, and 100 years later, Konya Ark housed the Khan's ...
Uzbek khanates is a general name for the three states that existed in Transoxiana (modern Uzbekistan) at the time of its subjugation by the Russian Empire in the 19th century, namely the Khanates of Bukhara (1500-1920 [1]), Khiva (1512-1920 [2]) and Kokand (c. 1710-1876 [3]).