ABOUT ETHNONYMS OF NAMES OF LEADING CLAN LIVED IN THE EMIRATES OF BUKHARA
Abstract
This article presents the views of the researcher on the ethnic position of the population of the Emirate of Bukhara in the Zeravshan, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya oases, Eastern Bukhara, the upper and middle reaches of the Amu Darya in the 19th-early 20th centuries. During this period, the majority of the population of the Bukhara Emirate were Turkic-speaking Uzbeks. Further, in the Emirate of Bukhara, the ethnic composition of the population included the following: Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Karakalpaks, as well as small Persian-speaking Tajiks, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Karakalpaks, as well as small Persian-speaking people living in Badakhshan and in the foothills of the Pamirs. On the basis of historical documents, the researcher tried to reveal the existence of many scientific sources. The article concludes that the Mangit dynasty was one of the most influential clans of the Bukhara Emirate.