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Russian conquest of Central Asia
The Russian conquest of Central Asia was the gradual annexation of the Kazakh steppe and the khanates of Kokand, Bukhara and Khiva by the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Tashkent fell in 1865 and Samarkand in 1868, Khiva was subdued in 1873 and the Turkmen were defeated at Geok Tepe in 1881. The region became Russian Turkestan, with Bukhara and Khiva left as protectorates.
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