Keneghez

Keneghez, a branch of the Uzbeg Tatars, Shehr-i-Sebz district, Bokhara, Sunnite Mohammedans, as renowned for their courage as the women are for their beauty. Originally a subdivision of the royal Manghit tribe, of which the reigning Bokhara family is a member, the Keneghez detached themselves from that connection about the beginning of the present century; but the independent state which they then established was reduced by the Russians and restored to the Khanate of Bokhara in 1868. Five divisions: Kairasaly, Achamaily, Tarakli, Chekliat, and Abakly, partly settled, partly still nomads. Total population, 35,000 (?).