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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Search Results: "khanates-of-khiva

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Burnaby, Colonel
A traveller of daring adventure, born at Bedford, a tall, powerful man; Colonel of the Horse Guards Blue; travelled in South and Central America, and
Oxus
great river of central asia, rises in the pamirs, and flows w. between turkestan and afghanistan, then n. through turkestan to the sea of aral; it is believed at one time to have flowed into the caspian, and there is record of two changes of course; half its waters are absorbed in irrigating the plains of khiva.
Turkestan
A wide region in Central Asia, divided by the Pamir plateau into sections: hich embraces Russian Turkestan (3,342), the Khanates of Khiva (q. v .)
Uzbegs
a race of tartar descent and mohammedan creed, dominant in turkestan, the governing class in khiva, bokhara, and khokand especially; territory now annexed to russia. v
 
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