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  Kyrgyzstan in 1997
I had no problem getting here, it was just a 5 hour bus ride from Almaty and a short city bus hop from the bus station to the city center where Lenin was trying to hail a taxi on Ala Too Square.
After the fall of the Djungarian Empire to the Manchu, Central Asia was divided between the three feuding Khanates of Khiva, Bukhara and Kokhand.
The Kyrgyz tribes occupying the Tian Shan plateau resisted Kokhand's domination but their tribes were not united and submitted one by one to the advancing Russians in the mid 19th century and were incorporated in the provinces of Ferghana and Semireche.
berclo.net /page97/97en-kyrgyzstan.html   (1330 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: Central Asia: Bishkek
Although a small settlement there had long been of marginal importance to Silk Road travelers as a last resting point before crossing the Tien Shan Mountains into China, its history as a city only really began in 1864.
In 1825, the Kahn of Kokhand had built a small mud fortress where the city now stands.
However, by the time Russia invaded in 1862, the Kahn’s army had been so weakened from wars with other Kahns that the Russians easily demolished it.
sras.org /cities.phtml?m=32   (605 words)

  
 Tajikistan History & Tajikistan Culture | iExplore.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However, the mountains effectively spared it from the Mongols, although it was under their aegis.
Empire, Tajikistan was successively ruled by the emirs of Samarkand, Bukhara, and finally, Kokhand.
It was eventually ceded to the Russian sphere of influence in the dying days of the ‘Great Game’ of political intrigue between the Russian Empire and the British in India at the end of the 19th century.
www.iexplore.com /dmap/Tajikistan/History   (1308 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: Central Asia: Tashkent
With the fall of Ghengis Khan, the city passed to the control of Tamerlain.
By 1449, Tamerlain's one great empire fell into anarchy, and the city eventually came under the control of the Khanite of Kokhand.
By 1865, Russian forces controlled the city and made it the capital of Russian Turkistan.
www.sras.org /cities.phtml?m=68   (298 words)

  
 Friends of Kyrgyzstan
Archaeological study has found that various tribes known as the Scythians lived in the area until the 6th century, when Turkic groups moved into the area.
Around the 10th century, the ancestors of the Kyrgyz people were pushed south from Siberia by the Mongols, who swept through the region periodically for the next few centuries until the Kokhand khanate (kingdom) based in modern-day Uzbekistan became the regional power.
Meanwhile, most of the Kyrgyz people continued to live a nomadic lifestyle in the high mountains.
www.friendsofkyrgyzstan.org /kyrgyzstan/history.htm   (289 words)

  
 Sokol Tours: Destinations: Uzbekistan: Tashkent
The Arabs remained in control until the arrival of Genghis Khan in the 13th century.
With the fall of Mongolian Empire, the city passed to the control of Tamerlain Empire until 1449, when the area falls under the influence of Kokhand Kingdom.
By 1865, Russian forces made Tashkent the capital of their new Russian Turkestan colony.
www.sokoltours.com /destination.phtml?m=68   (302 words)

  
 Crimean War continues after 1856 - Alternate History Discussion Board
Might kick off a long, harsh war and an even longer period of cold relations between Britain and Russia, not to mention slaughter on an incredible scale in Northern India.
Look at the dates for the annexation of Kokhand (spelling is escaping what I think is called my memory), Khiva and Bokhara - these are either newly subjugated or still to be conquered at this period.
Even a heroic effort and an invasion of Afghanistan would not really threaten Britain as Northern India is not the same as the NW Frontier post-mutiny, and any incursion into Afghanistan is only going to be that, an incursion.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=7374   (1611 words)

  
 UzNGOs
CAFE is a development organization with over 80 expatriate volunteers and 350 national staff.
Development programs are implemented at the regional level through 10 semi-autonomous regional offices (Andijan, Fergana, Karshi, Kokhand, Namangan, Navoii, Nukus, Samarqand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan).
Each office has established its own programs and projects as determined by local needs and environmental realities.
uzngos.uzsci.net /en/activity/002.html   (100 words)

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