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Dissatisfaction with
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885:, Muhammet Gurban was the son of a tribal chieftain Khojibay, after whose death he assumed the leadership of the tribe. Gaining authority during the Turkmen uprisings of 1912-1916, Junaid was granted enormous power within the Khanate by the then
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January 1918, Asfandiyar Khan appointed Muhammet-Kurban as the commander of the armed forces of the Khanate, bestowing on him the title "Serdar-Karim" ("noble commander"). After Zaitsev's detachment from Khiva recaptured
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Having defeated and expelled by mid-September 1918 his main adversaries in the
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Dzhunaid Khan's gangs in the Kara-Kum desert. May-June 1928
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