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📚 name • entry_id 56341

Khiva

/ˈkiːvə/
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Jiva
A small historical town in present-day Uzbekistan, former capital of Khwarezm, and a former khanate.
It now occurred to him that possession of Khiva, which lay midway between his own frontiers and those of India, would provide him with the staging point he needed in the region.
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