History of the Emirate of Bukhara (1983: Doomsday)

The following is the history of the.

Pre-Doomsday
The Emirate of Bukhara was officially created on 1785, when the Manghit emirs, which had gained power from their position of "ataliq". By the time of the Persian invasion on 1740, it was clear that the Manghit holded the true power. In 1747, a Manghit ataliq killed the heir to the throne, and during the fourty-year period, the Khanate of Bukhara had puppet rulers controlled by the Manghit, until 1785, where the Manghit were proclaimed Emirs. In 1868, the Emirate lost a war with Russia, and Russia annexed much of the emirate's territory, including Samarkand, and made the Emirate a protectorate.

Reformists in the Emirate had found that the emir didn't want to loose his grip on power of Bukhara, and they asked for the Russian Bolshevik to help. The Bolsheviks were able to defeat the Emirate, and they replaced it with the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, which later became part of the Uzbek, Tajik and Turkmeni SSRs.

During the Soviet era, the eastern part of the Emirate became prosperous, as the city of Tashkent became the fourth largest on the USSR.

Doomsday
The Uzbek SSR was hit more lightly than other SSR's such as the Kazakh or the Turkmeni. Uzbekistan recieved nuclear strikes over the cities of Termez, Tashkent (four separate nuclear strikes), Andijon, Qarshi, Navoiy and Uchquduq. The radiation was a problem too, but most of it quickly escaped onto the lowlands into west Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Unification
As soon as contact with Tashkent (and Moscow) was broken, much of Uzbekistan fell into chaos. The city-states of Bukhara and Samarkand quickly declared independence. However, Samarkand was soon plagued with civil and political unrest.

Being the strongest city on Uzbekistan, Bukhara made it's move. It sent a large militia army, recently created, against the city of Samarkand. The interim parliament of the city of Bukhara sent a letter to the Samarkand government. It said that they would become a part of the city of Bukhara's control immediately or prepare for war. Samarkand, more concerned with civil unrest than with independence, agreed to join Bukhara, and the Emirate was born. The recently-united Emirate now quickly conquered many of the viloyats (or provinces) of the Uzbek SSR, and quickly eliminated all warlords in that part of eastern Uzbekistan.

Many immigrants of Uzbek ethnicity escaped from the south and east of Uzbekistan, which were hit with more force. Many Uzbeks also came from the lawless Afghanistan in the south, too. These Uzbeks replaced the historical Tajik majority for that of Uzbek in Bukhara and Samarkand.

The period comprehending the years between 1984 and 1990 was extremely hard for the Emirate. Although the area of the Emirate escaped much of the radiation from the many bombings on Central Asia due to the wind, rain and the geography of Uzbekistan moved towards Karalparakistan, but the attacks on Nawoiy and Qarshi still proved devastating. The electro-magneric pulse (EMP) of the bombs destroyed every non-shielded device. Small fallout pockets blocked economic routes, most importantly that between Bukhara and Samarkand blocked due to the bombing of Nawoiy. By 1990, the population of Uzbekistan had been cut by half (from 16 million inhabitants to 8 million). Fortunately, by then the worst was over.

The MLA
The MLA (Muslim Liberation Army) was the first organized nation that the Emirate of Bukhara found, in 1990. As they expanded further north, they occupied large areas (about a third of Bukhara's official territory) from the Emirate and forced many Uzbeks to join the army. Finally, the Emirate of Bukhara was forced to sign a treaty with the MLA that placed a puppet regime that claimed ancestry from the early Manghit Dynasty, the one which dominated the Emirate during it's pre-doomsday period until 1920, although nobody actually believed it. From that moment on, the MLA used the Emirate as a northern outpost and recruiting ground.

As the Soviet Union was more well known, when the Kazakh SSR recuperated and stopped being the ransacked region it was until then, the MLA started using the Emirate of Bukhara against Soviet-friendly Khanate of Kokand and the Soviet Union proper. On 2009-early 2010, the Khanate of Bukhara started going through internal turmoil. The Soviet Union made nearby Khanate of Aralia into a puppet, and the MLA started getting more involved into the Bukharan affairs. Arabic was made a official language for inter-communication in May 5, 2010.

At the same time, Shukria Raad Alimi, heir to the Emirate of Bukhara, arrived into the Emirate (by unknown means). However, she almost instantly had to go into hiding, as the leaders of the MLA wanted to kill her, and the newly-created Soviet faction was hostile to her and her followers. She hid in a small town close to Samarkand, and started converging several pro-Shukria (Royalist) militias into a great army. Escaping into a slightly larger town near the city of Guliston, Shukria's followers have stationed there. Most of the Bukharan army composes of Russians, Atheists, Jews, Christians and non-religious Sunni Muslims.

The Bukharan Civil War
On October 17, Royalists take over Guliston confirming the vague Bukharan reports that said an army was heading for the city. The royalist army, led by Shukria Raad Alimi, the historical heir to the throne, takes over Guliston with hardly a fight. Later in the day, the Emir of Bukhara proclaims the Bukharan Civil War to have started, and that the current Emirate's government "will not resign until the last drop of blood has been shed", on a speech told within the city of Samarkand.

On October 22, the Royalists advance over Jizzakh, while the pro-Soviets make their first move and attack Shakhrisyabz. However, the attack was defeated by a MLA army, and the pro-Socialists are disbanded. On October 26, the Royalists siege Samarkand. This is the first siege to a city in the Bukharan Civil War, as the soldiers of Guliston and Jizzakh surrendered peacefully. On October 30, the Russian Confederacy declared its support for the Royalist cause in the Emirate of Bukhara. Andrey Tretyak, current Durma leader stated that "The Russian Confederacy has long supported the cause of the moderate royalists in Bukhara and we hope that their example will inspire other oppressed majorities to rise up against their oppressors, socialist or otherwise". On November 4, 2010, the Siege of Samarkand ends. Shukria Raad Alimi is proclaimed Emir of Bukhara, although the pro-MLA Emir hasn't yet abdicated. The Siege of Bukhara started in November 10, 2010, a mere two hours after the pro-MLA emir fled to Afghanistan. The same day, the governments of Armenia, Dagestan, and Kalmykia recognized the royalists as the government of Bukhara, following the example of the Russian Confederacy. They support the cause against terrorism and socialism, and Kalmykia in particular also expressed that it supports Sukrhia's right as a women to fight for it.

The siege of Bukhara ended a mere 4 days later, and the Royalist army headed south, where they defeated the Muslim Liberation Army in Termez, in the 21st of November, 2010. At the end of the Battle of Termez, Shukria Raad Alimi declared the Bukharan Civil War finished and a plan of historical expansion of the Emirate into it's pre-Russian borders, which include the western three oblasts of Tajikistan (a no man's land made up of warlords) and the territory of Turkmenistan south until the Amu Darya river. This project is to start in December 26, 2010.

After the Civil War
The first of Shukria Raad Alimi's laws was replacing Arabic with Russian as official language. This is considered by many to be another action to distance themselves more from the Muslim Liberation Army.