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| | Khanate of Bukhara |
 | | Name "Khanate of Bukhara "is used as a matter of convinience in European suorces:.In indigenous works the khanate was known either by the name of the ruling dynasty,by the name of its main region,Mawarannahr(Transoxonia),or by the literature name "Turan". |
 | | From 1723 to 1729 the country suffered from devastations caused by the Kazakhs, who, fleeing from Dzungars, invaded the Zeravshan valley.In 1740 the khanate was conquered by Nadir Shah, the ruler of Iran.The Janid khan Abu al Fayz retained his throne, becoming Nadir's vassal. |
 | | Besides frequent diplomatic exchanges with its Central Asia nieghbors, the khanate perennially naintained limited relations with other states of Islamic world; Iran, the Ottoman empire, the Mughal empire and Afganistan.Diplomatic relations with Europe were practically nonexist, but trade was significant,and the country did not experience any Western influence before the Russian conquest. |
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