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KHIVA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 778 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KHIVA  ,

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capital of the khanate of Khiva, in Western
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Asia, 25 M . W. of the Amu-darya and 240 M . W.N.W. of
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Bokhara . Pop. about ro,000 . It is surrounded by a
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low earthen
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wall, and has a citadel, the
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residence of the
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khan and the higher officials . There are a
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score of mosques, of which the one containing the
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tomb of Polvan, the
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patron
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saint of Khiva, is the best, and four large madrasas (
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Mahommedan colleges) . Large gardens exist in the western
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part of the
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town . A small
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Russian
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quarter has grown up . The inhabitants make carpets, silks and cottons .

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