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Central Asian revolt of 1916

The Central Asian revolt of 1916, also known as the Semirechye Revolt and as Urkun in Kyrgyzstan, was an anti-Russian uprising by the indigenous inhabitants of Russian Turkestan sparked by the conscription of Muslims into the Russian military for service on the Eastern Front during World War I.

Central Asian revolt of 1916
Central Asian revolt of 1916 · Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1917
Where
Central Asia
Era
Modern

Topics

Kazakhstan329 BCE – todayRussian Empire1681 – 1922

Before and after

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