Mohammed Alim Khan

Life

The scion of reaching back to 1784 Manghit dynasty married in April 1902, the daughter of Seyyid Akram Khan and fathered her two sons ( Seyyid Mir Ibrahim Khan, born on 27 December 1903, Seyyid Mir Sultan Khan). Alim Khan died in 1944 in exile in Afghanistan.

With the expulsion of Alim Khan, the emirate in 1920 for the independent Soviet People's Republic of Bukhara with Samarkand as its capital before it was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1925 Uzbekistan was. In the east the ousted Emir had collected with help of the British fighters against the Soviet Union, but was driven by the Red Army early 1921 back to Afghanistan. Then crossed the end of 1921 his followers again the border and allied themselves with the Basmachis and Enver Pasha. Enver, appointed by Alim Khan for " Supreme Commander of the armed forces of Islam and governor of the Emir of Bukhara ", conquered and occupied actually Dushanbe throughout Eastern Bukhara (Tajikistan), but was defeated in the summer of 1922 by the Soviets.

• Emir
• Uzbek
• Born in 1880
• Died in 1944
• Man