Emirate of Bukhara
Emirate of Bukhara | |||||||||
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| 1785–1920 | |||||||||
Bukhara National Flag as published in 1929 by deposed Emir in exile Sayyid Alim Khan. | |||||||||
[1800] The Emirate of Bukhara and main polities in Asia c. 1800 | |||||||||
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| Capital and largest city | Bukhara | ||||||||
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| Religion | Sunni Islam (official), Sufism (Naqshbandi) | ||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||
• 1785–1799 | Mir Masum Shah Murad | ||||||||
• 1911–1920 | Mir Muhammad Alim Khan | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Manghit control | 1747 | ||||||||
• Shah Murad became Emir | 1785 | ||||||||
• Conquered by Russia | 1868 | ||||||||
• Russian protectorate | 1873 | ||||||||
| 2 September 1920 | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1875 | c. 2,478,000 | ||||||||
• 1911 | c. 3,000,000–3,500,000 | ||||||||
| 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.