In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia's Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, rebellion, and then revolution. …
Khoqand (Uzbek Qo’qon/Qŭqon, Pers. Khūkand) is a city in the Farghana (Farghāna) Valley, in present-day southeastern Uzbekistan. The leadership of the Uzbek Ming Shāhrukhid dynasty founded Khoqand in 1153/1740 as the capital of their fledgling state (1799–1876), which later beca…