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Junaid Khan
Junaid Khan was a Turkmen tribal leader of the Yomut who became the real power in the Khanate of Khiva from 1918. After the Red Army and the Young Khivans overthrew the khanate in 1920, he fought the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic and later Soviet rule as a leader of the Basmachi resistance, before fleeing to Iran and Afghanistan, where he died.
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