Sentence examples for the khanates from inspiring English sources

Muscovite tributes to the khanates became increasingly perfunctory, and Grand Duke Ivan III formally declared Moscow independent in 1480.

Their organization was exclusively tribal, and the tribes were either nomadic and independent or subject to neighbouring Persia or to the khanates of Khiva and Bukhara.

Between the 1850s and the 1880s economic and strategic considerations impelled the Russian government to bring the whole of West Turkistan under its control, only the khanates of Bukhara and Khiva being left partially independent under their traditional rulers.

Saint Basil the Blessed, also called Pokrovsky Cathedral, Russian Svyatoy Vasily Blazhenny or Pokrovsky Sobor, church constructed on Red Square in Moscow between 1554 and 1560 by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible), as a votive offering for his military victories over the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.

In a less documented genre such as the Central Asian suzani, the silk-on-cotton embroideries from the Khanates of what is now Uzbekistan, Franses' eye is documentation enough.

The khanates exercised control over their affairs via international trade routes between Central Asia and the West.

They finally annexed the khanate in 1876.

The Khanate was not the only empire to rise from the grasses of Mongolia.

In 1885 a Russo-Afghan boundary commission formally allotted the khanate to Afghanistan.

Samarkand was conquered by Uzbeks in 1500 and became part of the khanate of Bukhara.

During the 17th century, Chagatai became confined largely to the somewhat peripheral khanate of Khiva, while the khanate of Bukhara usually patronized writing in Persian.