khanate of Kokand

…before being annexed by the khanate of Kokand in 1809. When it was captured by the Russians in 1865, it was a walled city of some 70,000 inhabitants and already a leading centre of trade with Russia. In 1867 it was made the administrative centre of the new governorate-general of…

…settled population of Bukhara and Kokand, known as Sarts, usually spoke both Persian and Turkic but nevertheless had two distinct literary heritages derived from those languages. The literary model for Sarts whose predominant language was Turkic remained the Chagatai classics of the 15th century, especially the works of Navāʾī. Sarts…

A third state, the khanate of Kokand, emerged in the mid-18th century. The whole area came under Russian control in the 1860s and ’70s, but the khans remained as figurehead rulers until after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

…when a rebellion in the Khanate of Kokand (1875) resulted in Kaufmann’s invasion of that region, Skobelev captured the city of Andizhan (now Andijon) in January 1876, enabling the Russians to occupy the whole khanate. The Russian government then annexed Kokand (Feb. 19, 1876), renamed it the province of Fergana,…

…it became part of the khanate of Kokand, and in 1876 Andijon was captured by the Russians. In 1898 it was the scene of an abortive native rebellion against tsarist rule. Andijon is subject to frequent earth tremors and was leveled by an earthquake in 1902 that took more than…

The khans of Kokand ruled it from the late 18th century until it was taken by Russia in 1876.

…it became part of the khanate of Kokand and the centre of a political unit. Industry processing local agricultural raw materials, particularly cotton, began to develop after the Fergana Valley was annexed by Russia in 1876, and Namangan is now known for its food and other light industries. It is…

…became the capital of the khanate of Kokand. The khanate, centred on the Fergana Valley, enjoyed its greatest power in the first half of the 19th century, when it extended northward into present-day Kazakhstan. Under the khans Kokand was an important centre of trade and handicrafts as well as the…

…Muhammad ʿAli, the khan of Kokand; Bishkek (Pishpek), the future capital city of the Kyrgyz, was built by that khanate. Through these contacts, Islam was gradually adopted by the more-southern Kyrgyz, although it has remained merely a veneer on the national culture.

…on the Amu Darya), and Kokand (centred in the Fergana Valley in the east).