What the records say
- When
- 12 Jun 1868 – 18 Jun 1868
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 39.65° N, 66.96° E
- Description
- 1868 siege
Siege of Samarkand (1868)
Part of the Russian conquest of Bukhara
The siege of Samarkand, or siege of the Samarkand Citadel, was a military engagement fought in the city of Samarkand in June 1868. In the engagement, a small garrison of Russian Imperial soldiers was besieged by a combined army of Bukharan soldiers and their allies - including the Kokand Khanate and tributary Turkmen-Uzbek tribes. The siege played an important role in the 1868 campaign of Russian conquest of Bukhara.
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