Proper noun
Khiva
A small historical town in present-day Uzbekistan, former capital of Khwarezm, and a former khanate.
However, he failed to gain control of Tashkent, Bukhara and Khiva. Source: Internet
In this period, many of the Turkmens tribes living around the Lake Aral left also migrated because of pressures from both the Khanate of Khiva and the Kalmyks and migrated to around Astrakhan and Stavropol in northern Caucasus. Source: Internet
A People's Republic of Khorezm also was set up in what had been Khiva. Source: Internet
Khiva contested the advance of the Tekkes, but ultimately, about 1856, the latter became the sovereign power of southern and southeastern parts of present Turkmenistan. Source: Internet
Most of present Turkmenistan was divided between Khanates of Khiva and Bukhara except southernmost parts were handed to Persia. Source: Internet
Those dynasties were the Qongrats in Khiva, the Manghits in Bukhoro, and the Mins in Quqon. Source: Internet