Emirate of Bukhara
Also known as Bokhara, Bukhara, Emirate of Bokhara, Bokhara Emirate, Bukhara Emirate, Khanate of Bokhara, Bokhara Khanate, Khanate of Bukhara
1785–1920 state in Central Asia
Key facts
- 1875
- c. 2,478,000
- 1911
- c. 3,000,000–3,500,000
- Status
- Independent emirate (1785–1873) Quasi-independent Russian protectorate (1873–1920)
- Capital and largest city
- Bukhara
- Common languages
- Persian (official, court, literature, administration) Chagatai Turkic (dynastic)
- Religion
- Sunni Islam (official), Sufism ( Naqshbandi )
- Government
- Absolute monarchy
- 1785 1799
- Mir Masum Shah Murad
- 1911 1920
- Mir Muhammad Alim Khan
- Fall of bukhara
- 2 September 1920
- Currency
- Fulus , tilla, and tenga
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The Emirate of Bukhara was an Uzbek absolute monarchy in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now parts of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana. Its core territory was the fertile land along the lower Zarafshon river, and its urban centres were the ancient cities of Samarqand and the 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. In 1920, it ceased to exist with the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic. The Turco-Mongol tribe of Uzbeks known as "Manghits" were the rulers.
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