Emirate of Bukhara

Emirate of Bukhara
امارت بخارا (Persian)
Imārat-i Bukhārā (Persian)
بخارا امیرلیگی (Chagatay)
Bukhārā Amirligi (Chagatay)
1785–1920
Flag of Bukhara
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The Emirate of Bukhara c. 1820
The Emirate of Bukhara c. 1820
Status
Capital
and largest city
Bukhara
Common languages
Religion
Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, Sufism (Naqshbandi), Zoroastrianism, Judaism
GovernmentAbsolute 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[3]
c. 2,478,000
• 1911[4]
c. 3,000,000–3,500,000
CurrencyFulus, tilla, and tenga[5]
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Khanate of Bukhara
Bukharan People's Soviet Republic

The Emirate of Bukhara (Persian: امارت بخارا, romanizedImārat-i Bukhārā,[6] Chagatay: بخارا امیرلیگی, romanized: Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim-Uzbek polity in Central Asia[7] that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, 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.

  1. ^ DeWeese 2019, p. 137.
  2. ^ Grenoble, Lenore (2003). Language Policy of the Soviet Union. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 143. ISBN 1-4020-1298-5.
  3. ^ |Meyendorf E.K. Travel from Orenburg to Bukhara. Foreword N. A. Halfin. Moscow, The main edition of the eastern literature of the publishing house "Science", 1975. (in Russian:Мейендорф Е. К. Путешествие из Оренбурга в Бухару. Предисл. Н. А. Халфина. М., Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1975.)
  4. ^ Olufsen, Ole (1911). The emir of Bokhara and his country; journeys and studies in Bokhara. Gyldendal: Nordisk forlag. p. 282.
  5. ^ ANS Magazine. "The Coinage of the Mangit Dynasty of Bukhara" Archived 15 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine by Peter Donovan. Retrieved: 16 July 2017.
  6. ^ "نگاهی به امارت بخارا در صد سالگی انقلاب اکتبر". BBC News. 5 November 2017.
  7. ^ Golden, Peter B. (2011). Central Asia in World History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 115.