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Khiva
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A Turkestan province or khanate in Central Asia, S. of the Sea of Aral; is under Russian protection since 1873; a sandy desert with many oases, and in some parts well irrigated from the Oxus; it produces wheat, rice, cotton, and fruit; climate subject to extremes.
he capital, on a canal connected with the Amu, some distance from the left bank of the Oxus, and 300 m. NW. of Merv, is a town of earth huts; it was at one time one of the chief slave-markets in Asia till the traffic was put a stop to by Russia.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Khiva'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/k/khiva.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Khiva'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/k/khiva.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
