Бухоро Амирлиги архив фонди – Бутунжаҳон ҳужжатли Мерос

The National Archives of Uzbekistan is the largest repository in Central Asia, contains over 1 million 800 thousand historical sources. Among these documents, relatively little-studied oriental documents (Arabic Persian and Chagatai languages) reflecting various issues of the history of Uzbekistan are invaluable. On May 10-24, 2023, at the 216th meeting of the UNESCO Executive Council, held in Paris, another archival fund was included in the Memory of the World register – “The Office of the Ko’shbegi of the Emir of Bukhara”, stored in the National Archives of Uzbekistan. These archival documents were found in 1930th in the residency of Emir (Ark) of Bukhara. In 1938, part of the documents was transport to the Tashkent to Central State Historical Archive, and another parts remained in the Bukhara Museum of Local Lore and History. Today, the archival fund contains more than 9,400 storage units, the chronological framework of which covers 1718 - 1920. The documents reflect the administrative-territorial structure, foreign and domestic policy, communications, transport, road construction, military affairs, passport system, judicial and legal issues, medicine and education in the Bukhara Emirate