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Khiva
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English
thumb|Walls of Itchan Kala
Etymology
Borrowed from en ru Хива́.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkiːvə/
Proper noun
en Q486195 en city adr/Khorazm c/Uzbekistan.
en historical The Khanate of Khiva, a nation in Central Asia that existed from 1511 to 1920.
en 1990 w:Peter Hopkirk The Great Game 17 Folio Society 2010 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.
Derived terms
en Khivan
Translations
city in Khorazm Region, Uzbekistan
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 希瓦 Xīwǎ
Kazakh: kk Хиуа
Kyrgyz: ky Кыйба
Persian:
Dari: prs خِیوَه
Iranian Persian: fa-ira خیوِه
Polish: pl Chiwa f
Russian: ru Хива́
Spanish: es Jiva
Tajik: tg Хива
Tatar: tt Хивә
Turkish: tr Hive
Ottoman Turkish: ota خیوه hive
Turkmen: tk Hywa
Uyghur: ug خىۋە
Uzbek: uz Xiva
Written Oirat: xwo ^ᡍᡅᡖᡄ
en Cities Uzbekistan Former polities