Russian conquest of Central Asia
1865–1885 · Event
Imperial Russia absorbs the Central Asian khanates — Tashkent (1865), Samarkand and Bukhara (1868), Khiva (1873), Kokand (1876) — pushing the empire toward British India and intensifying the Great Game.
On these timelines: The Silk Road & the Steppe, Russia & the USSR, Master
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