{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Khanate of Khiva",
  "now": "uzbekistan",
  "years": "1511–1920",
  "id": "khiva",
  "index": "c/uzbekistan:1511",
  "title": "Flag of the Khanate of Khiva",
  "ratio": "1:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "note": "Sable field."
    },
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#fcd116",
      "note": "Crescent and star."
    },
    {
      "color": "turquoise",
      "hex": "#2db5a6",
      "note": "Frame — Khwarezmian decorative tradition."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Khanate of Khiva (1511–1920) was a Central Asian Uzbek state on the lower Amu Darya (Oxus), successor to the ancient Khwarezmian civilisation\n - **Construction:** a black field bearing a gold crescent and five-pointed star, framed by a turquoise border — black being a rare heraldic field colour in Islamic states\n - A Russian protectorate from 1873, dissolved with the founding of the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic in 1920",
  "flag": "empires/khiva.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Khanate of Khiva",
    "officialName": "Xiva Xonligi",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Historically infamous among Russian explorers for its slave market of captured Persians and Russians\n - The walled city of **Itchan Kala** (Khiva's inner town) is a preserved UNESCO site of 16th–19th-century Khanate architecture\n - The Khanate's dynasty claimed descent from Genghis Khan's son Jochi",
  "_name": "Khanate of Khiva",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "khiva"
}