Furthermore, the state of democracy in the country is amply illustrated by the fact that I once heard a famous explorer call it a khanate. |
When the Khazar tribe converted to Judaism in 740, their khanate occupied a Eurasian power vacuum between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. |
Bokhara rugs which are made in the city and khanate of that name, are not the so-called Bokhara rugs of the Western world. |
In 1885 a Russo-Afghan boundary commission formally allotted the khanate to Afghanistan. |
Once part of the khanate of Dzungaria, the kray was colonized by the Russians from the 18th century. |
The Czar's officials had little difficulty in picking a quarrel with the khanate of Khokand. |