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Siege of Tashkent

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Tashkent · Central Asia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The 1865 Russian capture of Tashkent (9 May-17 June 1865) was a decisive episode in the Russian conquest of Central Asia, defeating the Khanate of Kokand. The Kokandi leader Alimqul was killed, and Russia annexed the city, opening the way to the conquest of Bukhara.

Belligerents2

Russian Empire
Khanate of Kokand

ON THE MAPRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)Khanate of Kokand

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Tashkent
Russian conquest of Central Asia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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