Notifications

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This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Section 3 Notifications Document 37: A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Assault and Robbery187 204 The term bakhshī occurs often in Khorezmian sources written in the 19th and the early 20th century and it usually couples with the names of the headmen of several Turkmen tribes. According to Bregel, this term was in use especially among the Yomut Turkmens of Khorezm, see his Khorezmskie turkmeny v XIX veke, pp. 124-125; 128-129.One could therefore infer that the boy belonged to a group of Yomuts. 205 Turtkul, or Petro-Aleksandrovsk, was the administrative center of the Amu-Darya Department (otdel), i.e., the part of the Khivan Khanate, which was conquered by the Russians and included into the Governorship-General of Turkestan in 1873. The Amu-Darya Department was established as an administrative unit on August the 21st 1873 and it was located circa 40 miles from Khiva. For more on this subject, see the introduction to this volume. 206 Berdanka is the colloquial form for the Russian rifle invented by the American colonel Hiram Berdan in 1868. See also above, the footnote to Doc. 25.