Ulugbek Azizov (2015). Freeing from the 'Territorial Trap' (на језику: енглески). LIT Verlag Münster. стр. 58. ISBN9783643906243. Приступљено 2017-07-22. „The Bukhara Khanate as a new administrative entity was founded in 1533 and was the continuation of the Shaybanid dynas- ty. The khanate occupied the territory from Kashgar (west of China) to the Aral Sea, from Turkestan to the east part of Chorasan. The official language was Persian as well as Uzbek was spoken widely.”