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	Khiva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khiva (alternative names include Khorasam, Khoresm, Khwarezm, Khwarizm, Khwarazm, Chiwa and Chorezm) is the former capital of Khwarezmia, which lies in the present-day Khorezm Province of Uzbekistan.
		The district of Khwarazm, centred on the formerly rich and fertile delta of the Oxus or Amu-Darya, was an ancient centre of Iranic culture and Iranian architecture.
		The city of Khiva was first recorded by Arabic travellers in the 10th century, although the archaeologists assert that the city existed since the 6th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khiva (930 words)

	KHIVA (KINGDOM) - LoveToKnow Article on KHIVA (KINGDOM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the Transcaspian territory of Russia Khiva is separated by a line running almost W.N.W.E.S.E. under 40 30 N., from the Uzboi depression to the Amu-darya.
		The area of the Khiva oasis is 5210 sq.
		Khiva was conquered again by Timur in 1379; and finally fell under the rule of the Uzbegs in 1512, who are still the dominant race under the protection of the Russians.
	91.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KH/KHIVA_KINGDOM_.htm (2927 words)

	Uz-Khiva
		Khiva is in the lower basin of the Syr Darya river - one of the largest in Central Asia, flowing from the mountains in Tajikistan to the Aral Sea.
		The area around Khiva and along the river is literally an extended oasis in the middle of the desert that runs from the Mediterranean Sea into western China and Mongolia.
		On Khiva ruler started a minaret that would have been much taller and more ornate than this, but he died too soon and his successors were not interested in finishing it.
	users.ipfw.edu /vetterw/uz-khiva.htm (630 words)

	Khiva- The Museum under the blue sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khiva may be a small city -- its population barely tops 40,000 -- but its history as the best preserved stop on the old Silk Road gives it a broad appeal for tourists tracing the historic trading route.
		In the Khorezm oasis of the Kara-Kum Desert, Khiva was the capital of the Khivan Khanate from 1592 until the Bolshevik take-over in 1920.
		Intent on transforming the traditionally teeming city into a living museum, Khiva was purged of much of its ancient bustle, and its buildings were scrubbed down (or, in the case of some landmarks, such as the 9th century Dzhuma Mosque, rebuilt) and turned into public exhibits.
	www.tashkent.org /uzland/khiva.html (310 words)

	The ancient and medieval Khiva
		Khiva was mentioned for the first time in the works of the Arabic and Persian authors Istakhri, Mukaddasi and Khudud al-Alam dating from the tenth century.
		Archaeological research aimed at determining the historical age of Khiva was carried out in 1984-1990 by the archaeologist M. Mambetullaev, a representative of the Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the Kara-kalpak branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
		The eye-specialist, Blankennagel, who came to Khiva to treat a blind Khiva khan (the treatment was not successful) noted that a puppet khan showed himself to the people only three times a year, and the rest of time he was kept locked away, suffering deprivation of the most necessary things.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/khiva/history/007.htm (4244 words)

	Khanate of Khiva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khiva became the seat of a khan for the first time in 1557-58 (for one year), but only in the reign of Arab Muhammad Khan (1603-1622) did Khiva finally become a capital.
		A military offensive against Khiva was launched in the spring of 1873 from several directions, under the governor-general von Kaufman.
		Khiva was captured in 29 may and the khan, Sayid Muhammad Rahim II, surrended.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5246/Khiva.html (1414 words)

	Personal Homepage-Cities: Khiva
		Khiva is mentioned first in themanuscripts of Arab geographers from the 10th century.
		According to archeological data, Khiva had already existed in the 6th and 7th centuries.During 11th and 12th centuries, Khiva was a small town-fortress.
		Khiva is divided into the inner town - Ishan-Kala where about 60 historical monuments are located and Dishan-Kala - the outer town where citizens of Khiva live and work.
	www.geocities.com /manny1979/khiva.html (524 words)

	Khiva, Uzbekistan - City Guide, Hotels and Tours in Khiva
		In fact, Khiva is made up of Madrassahs, mosques and minarets such as the tall and beautiful Islam-Khoja minaret, plus having the most number of minarets in Asia, the most remarkable being the Kalta-Minor minaret (1835) and it is still standing.
		Khiva, one of the most noteworthy of the cities and towns of Central Asia, is situated on the left bank of the Amu-Darya in the southern part of the modern region of Khorezm in Uzbekistan.
		In 1967 it was proclaimed a town-reserve and since 1990 one part of Khiva — the Ichan-kala — was recognized by UNESCO as an historical monument of world significance.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/khiva.htm (368 words)

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		Mausoleum of Pahlavan Mahmud and Khans of Khiva
		Mausoleum of Pahlavan Mahmud and Khans of Khiva, tomb of Pahlavan Mahmud
		Mausoleum of Pahlavan Mahmud and Khans of Khiva, squinch in adjoining khanaka
	depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/cities/uz/khiva/khiva.html (324 words)

	Khiva with Anor Samarkand Travel
		B.C. Khiva- The museum under the blue sky Khiva may be a small city -- its popula tion barely tops 40,000 -- but its history as the best preserved stop on the old Silk Road gives it a broad appeal for tourists tracing the historic trading route.
		For those who have seen old cities at their best and worst, Khiva may feel a bit like the Williamsburg of the East, for its genuine dirt and din were swept clean by an aggressive Soviet sanitation in the 1970s.
		Khiva is a day-trip city - good hotels and other tourist services are in short supply - but it is a popular excursion from Urgench.
	www.samarkand-travel.com /khiva.htm (735 words)

	Khiva, Uzbekistan - History, Photo, Pictures, Hotels
		Khiva is a museum under the blue sky.
		Khiva reached its heyday in the Middle Ages having become one of the main towns.
		Architecture of Khiva is striking due to its simplicity and monumental forms, unique and graceful fretted wooden columns, and the skillful plaiting design that decorates numerous administrative and religious buildings.
	www.eastlinetour.com /khiva (329 words)

	Uzbekistan in 1997 (3 Khiva)
		Khiva is very ancient, it was probably founded in the 5th century, but these fortifications are not that old.
		For centuries, Khiva was only a minor fort and trading post on the silk road to the Caspian sea while the capital of ancient Khorezm was elsewhere, mostly in Old Urgench that was the heart of Islam under the Khorezm Shahs in the 13th century.
		Khiva's time had come as an important city-state trading mostly in slaves between the Turkmen desert tribes to the south-west and the Kazak tribes to the north-east.
	berclo.net /page97/97en-uzbekistan-3.html (1510 words)

	Tashkent.uz :: : Uzbek Khanates: 16-19 centuries : Khiva Khanate. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That was the time of the onset of the Khiva Khanate, with its capital shifting from Vazir to Kunya-Urgench to Khiva.
		Khiva Khanate included Khorezm, the Mangyshlak oasis, the Balkhash mountains, regions of Dekhistan, Uzboy and Middle Khorasan.
		Khans of Khiva were fiercely fighting with the Bukhara Khanate, simultaneously combating attempts of Turkmens and Khorasan to liberate themselves from Khiva.
	www.tashkent.uz /cmi/content.htm?short_name=/articles/history/history_16_19_century/khiva_khanate (411 words)

	Khiva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khiva is also the name of a town in northwestern Uzbekistan near the Turkmenistan border; the town is noted for its many historic buildings, such as the Islam-Khodzha Minaret and the mausoleum of the khans.
		An Uzbek khan founded the town of Khiva in the early 16th century as the capital of his khanate, which also became known as Khiva.
		In 1919 the Russians deposed the khan of Khiva, dissolving the khanate, and in 1920 Khiva became the Khorezmian People's Soviet Republic.
	www.stormloader.com /users/bella14/Khiva.html (188 words)

	Khiva :: History, monuments and pictures of Khiva. Weather in Khiva
		Khiva is an ancient city in the lower reaches of the Amu-Darya.
		In the fourteenth century it became prominent among the towns of Khorezm, and in the eighteenth century it was the capital of the Khiva Khanate.
		Soon afterwards the construction of the necropolis of Khiva rulers was started beside the poet's mausoleum, and the tombs of the earlier rulers were transferred there.
	www.orexca.com /khiva.shtml (1271 words)

	FANTASIA -> Uzbekistan -> Cities -> Khiva
		Khiva is one of the most remote of Central Asia's Great Silk Road cities, a fascinating desert town, preserved in its entirety since medieval times.
		It came to prominence in the 16th century as the capital of the Khans of Khiva whose territory stretched from the Caspian Sea to India and was famous for its religious fervour and slave markets.
		Khiva's inner walled city or "Ichan Kala" has been described as an open-air museum (or perhaps an abandoned film set).
	www.fantasticasia.net /?p=324 (141 words)

	Heart Of The Silk Road: Khiva - Pearl of Khorzem
		Walls of Khiva and Coca Cola (not a sight of Pepsi in UZ - is it because Coca Cola UZ's chairman is the president's son-in-law ?)
		Khiva was a fine city with beautiful monuments that were well preserved.
		As a result, Khiva lacked some of the life and activity that one noticed in other Uzbek cities.
	weecheng.com /silk/uz-khiva/khiva1.htm (698 words)

	AllRefer.com - Khiva, khanate of, Central Asian History (Central Asian History) - Encyclopedia
		Khiva, khanate of, former state of central Asia, based on the Khiva (Khwarazm or Khorezm) oasis along the Amu Darya River.
		Founded c.1511 as part of the Khwarazm state, Khiva rose in the late 16th cent.
		Khiva's economy was based on agriculture, livestock breeding, brigandage, and handicrafts.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Khiva-kh.html (230 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - TheWanderingCamel's Khiva Things to Do Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mosques and the harems were abandoned and the beautiful iwans fell into decay until, in the late 60s, the Soviets declared Khiva's Ichan Kala a museum city, evicted the people who had made their homes in the great buildings and began a programme of restoration.
		The khans of Khiva and their senior ministers saw no irony in the vicious treatment of their subjects and slaves and their endowment and patronage of the many medressas that are to be found in the old city.
		Nothing you have seen anywhere in Khiva prepares you for the strange, still beauty of the Juma mosque with its forest of carved wooden pillars receding into the dim recesses of the great hall.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/92cd3/1655cb/4 (1922 words)

	Uzbekistan - Khiva City
		In the 16th century, after wrecking Kunya Urgench, Timur made Khiva the capital of the Khorezm state and, rivalling the Mervi and Bukharan Dynasties, the city become a major state under the Shaybaids and pivot of the khanate for the next three centuries.
		Khiva's visual surprise, after Samarkand's blue and Bukhara's brown, is the use of turquoise tiles, and some parts of the the walled inner city remain inhabited.
		Khivas newest monument, with 45 m the enormous Minarett of Islam Khoja Medressa is Khivas tallest building and visible from far away.
	www.stantours.com /uz_rg_kh_kc.html (835 words)

	UzbekWorld: Your Guide to Uzbekistan - Sights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The best applied arts museum of Khiva in the medressa keeps ancient woodcarving, metal products, jeweler ornaments, books, Uzbek and Turkmen carpets, pottery, Arabic type stone carvings (Khorezm residents used to read and write on them during 8-20th centuries)and huge pots referred as khum to store food underground.
		Kuhna Ark is a fortress of Khiva rulers and their residence.
		Pakhlavon Makhmud Mausoleum is the most favorite medressa in Khiva with a an exceptional court yard and grandiose ceramics down the street from minaret Islom-Huja.
	intersaraton.uzbekworld.com /sights_khiva.html (784 words)

	Regarding the Release of Russian Captives from Khiva
		She was born in Khiva and is not baptized, and with her I have a three-year old daughter and a one-year old son.
		Rumor reached Khiva regarding the coming of Russian troops, but the Khivan khan, so I heard, did not believe them, placing his trust in God and in that the Russian tsars would never take up arms against the Khivan Khanate, and so he did not take any decisive measures.
		These were Russians held captive in Khiva, and of them, 69 identified themselves under questioning by the Orenburg Frontier Commission as belonging to the social class of serfs paying the poll tax, and 11 as being military.
	home.comcast.net /~markconrad/Khiva.htm (7986 words)

	Khiva Carpet Development Project — ElsewhereOnline.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As an entrepôt on the Silk Road, the city of Khiva, in what is now the Republic of Uzbekistan, provided merchants and travellers with an important staging post on the trade routes leading north to the Volga and west to the Caspian Sea.
		Projects like the Khiva Carpet Development Project, housed in an old madrasa, or theological college, are bringing life back into the city centre.
		The distinctive aspect of the Khiva Carpet Development Project is that the designs are based on carpets depicted in Persian miniatures and paintings by European artists such as Lorenzo Lotto and Hans Holbein.
	www.elsewhereonline.com.au /worldres/countries/uzbekistan/khivacarpet (840 words)

	Beefy's Khiva Page.
		Khiva really was a gem and was historically the most intact city in Central Asia. It was apparently used as a set for two Westerns...
		Also in Khiva, there lived a great mathematician, one of the main people who developed Algebra (the Egyptians beat him to inventing it by quite a long way) and the curse of many a school child...
		Khiva was part of the mini-state of Khorezm, prior to the arrival of the Russians in the 19th century.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /kathmandu/travels/uzbek/khiva.html (223 words)

	Khiva, Bukhara, Khokand
		It was employed in the walls surrounding the cities of Khokand, Bukhara and Khiva in the old days, annual repairs were carried out on the sections of the walls that had crumbled as a result of the seasonal rains.
		Khiva, once an important slave market, now presents an appearance more in keeping with a film set than a small, living city.
		Present-day Khiva has now prepared itself for tourism, but in spite of the atmosphere that it has been the intention to create, the visitor roaming around in its streets cannot help being impressed by the absence of a soul that vanished long ago.
	www.ferghana.ru /ancient/urta_osie.html (2376 words)

	Khiva - The City Museum
		Majolica, marble, paintings, carving was widely used in construction of many architectural monuments in Khiva: minarets, mosques, and madrassahs.
		In accordance with the medieval architectural traditions, Khiva was divided into the inner town Ichan Kala, where Khan had his residence and were most of the monuments were constructed, and Dishan Kala, the outer town, where most of the citizens lived and worked.
		The madrassah of Muhammad Amin Khan (1851-1852) is the largest madrassah in Khiva.
	www.malika-khiva.com /khiva.htm (307 words)

	A Ride to Khiva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 19th century equivalent of the Cold War was "The Great Game": the relentless southern expansion of Russia into Central Asia was a constant worry to the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire - India.
		Fred Burnaby's tales of travel by troika, horseback and camel(!) through the depths of the Russian winter are an enthralling read.
		Even more fascinating are his descriptions of the Khan of Khiva, the Tartars and the Russians - the Russian serfs had only been emancipated six years before.
	www.rippingyarns.com /products/A_Ride_to_Khiva.htm (147 words)

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