Editing Lebap Region (section)

===Bukhara and Khiva khanates===
Prior to the [[Russian Revolution]], much of today's Lebap Region was part of either the [[Khanate of Bukhara]]<ref name=tstanbook>{{cite book|title=Туркменистан |first=P. |last=Skosyrev |date=1948 |publisher=Molodaya Gvardiya |place=Moscow |page=192 |language=ru}}</ref> or the [[Khanate of Khiva]].<ref name=tstanbook5>{{cite book|title=Туркменистан |first=P. |last=Skosyrev |date=1948 |publisher=Molodaya Gvardiya |place=Moscow |page=194 |language=ru}}</ref> The last khan of Bukhara, [[Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan]],  nominally submitted to Soviet authority, but in reality joined the [[Basmachi movement]] and rebelled against the [[Bolsheviks]]. He fled in 1920, and the area was declared a people's republic until [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] power was firmly established in 1924.  In that same year, the settlements at Çärjew and Kerki were formally assigned to the [[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]], along with the western parts of the Khiva khanate along the Amu Darya.<ref name=tstanbook5 />