Khivan slave trade

Riders in Khiva. The slaves of the Khivan slave trade were captured in slave raids on the steppe.
Market in Khiva
Persian slave in the Khanate of Khiva, 16th century. Painting made in the 19th century
Von Kaufman portrait
Russians entering Khiva 1873 (cropped)
Muhammad Rahim Bahadur II, Khan of Khiva from 1863-1910

Khivan slave trade refers to the slave trade in the Khanate of Khiva, which was a major center of slave trade in Central Asia from the 17th century until the annexation of Russian conquest of Khiva in 1873. The slave market in Khiva mainly trafficked slaves from Russia and Persia to the Islamic khanates in Central Asia, but also to India and the Middle East.

Khiva was one of the main slave markets in Central Asia. In Bukhara, Samarkand, Karakul, Karshi, and Charju, mainly Persians, Russians, and some Kalmyk slaves, were traded by Turkmens, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz.[1] From the 17th to 19th centuries, Khiva was a notorious slave market for captured Persian and Russian slaves.[2]

  1. ^ Adle, Chahryar (2005-01-01). History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Towards the contemporary period : from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-103985-0.
  2. ^ "Adventure in the East". Time. 6 April 1959. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2011.

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