Khiva

Proper noun

Meaning

Khiva

A small historical town in present-day Uzbekistan, former capital of Khwarezm, and a former khanate.

Examples

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

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