TASHKENT, June 12 The archive of the Office of the Emir of Bukhara has been included in the list of the UNESCO Memory of the World program, Anvarjon Aliyev, head of the information service of the Uzarkhiv agency, said.
«The archive fund of the Office of Kushbegi (Minister — ed.) of the Emir of Bukhara» is included in the list of the UNESCO «Memory of the World» program, Aliyev said during an online briefing.
According to him, the office documents are stored in the National Archives of Uzbekistan and are a collection of documents in several languages - Arabic, Persian, Russian and Turkish.
Most of the documents were signed by the ruling emirs of Bukhara, as well as by specially authorized officials — sheikh-ul-islams (high officials on Islamic issues), muftis, judges, heads of guards and guards, Aliyev added.
The Emirate of Bukhara is a state , which existed from the middle of the 18th century to the 20s of the 20th century in Central Asia on the territory of modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.