Khiva

American  

[kee-vuh, khyi-vah] / ˈki və, xyɪˈvɑ /

noun

1. a former Asian khanate along the Amu Darya River, S of the Aral Sea: now divided between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

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Khiva British  

/ xiˈva /

noun

1. a former khanate of W Asia, on the Amu Darya River: divided between the former Uzbek and Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republics in 1924

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Example Sentences

And though all three cities have centuries-old caravansaries — the famed inns where Silk Road merchants stayed — Ichan-Kala, a remnant of the ancient Khiva oasis, checkered with medieval Islamic buildings, appears completely untouched by time.

From New York Times

Mirziyoyev has expressed hope of bringing prosperity by opening it up after decades of isolation under Karimov, including by attracting tourists to the blue-domed medieval Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva.

From Reuters

Before the galloping Russian conquest of the 19th century — the Russian Empire for over four centuries expanded at a rate of roughly 20,000 square miles a year — the land of this country had been divided into two khanates: Kokand in the east and Khiva in the west.

From New York Times

IN SAMARKAND, I felt melancholy, which followed me west to Bukhara and deepened in Khiva.

From New York Times

Philip Glazebrook, in the 1990s, on seeing something similar in Khiva, asked himself: “But what has renovation, matched colors, taste and tidiness, to do with an Asiatic city? The deadly aim of those weapons has killed Khiva stone dead.”

From New York Times