turkestan in English

noun
1
a region in central Asia between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert, inhabited mainly by Turkic peoples. It is divided by the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains into eastern Turkestan, now the Xinjiang autonomous region of China, and western Turkestan, which consists of present-day Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

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1. Turkestan ASSR was formed on 30 April 1918 on the territory of the former Turkestan General-Governorate.

2. The Beyler's wealth spurred a big "investment boom" in Turkestan (Turkmenistan).

3. The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January.

4. Bukhara is a city in Turkestan on the lower course of the Zarafshan river

5. However, even in nationalist writing, East Turkestan retained its older, more narrow geographical meaning.

6. In 1865, it fell to the Russian Empire, and became the capital of Russian Turkestan.

7. It is found in the Siberian and Mongolian steppes as well as Turkestan, where it was first discovered.

8. While at Tashkent, his last work on the ornithology of Turkestan region was not completed as he died of accidental poisoning.

9. Agriculturists, tanners, merchants, and mullahs (Muslim clerics) were brought from Turkestan, and small principalities sprang up on the Irtysh and the Ob.

10. Fearing Tsarist expansion into East Turkestan, Great Britain supported the Qing invasion forces through loans by British banks (mostly through Boston Bank, located in Hong Kong).

11. Wen emphasized that the "three forces", i.e. terrorism, separatism and extremism, including the "East Turkestan", have increasingly become the major threats to regional security and stability.

12. The same day Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the RSFSR ceased to exist, and its territory was divided between the new Kazakh and Kirghiz SSRs.