Vezir

Vezir was a town in northwestern Khwarazm, west of old Urgench. It lay in a region of irrigation channels and settlements sustained by the changing waters of the lower Oxus. In the early sixteenth century Khwarazm passed from the Uzbek conqueror Muhammad Shaybani to Safavid rule. Dissatisfied with the new government, the people of Vezir invited Ilbars, a Chinggisid prince from the Dasht-i Kipchak, and proclaimed him khan in 1511. His accession began a new ruling line in Khwarazm.