Russian Turkestan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Anau in Russian Turkestan, where excavations were conducted by the Pumpelly expedition, abundant traces were found of an archaic and forgotten civilization reaching back to the Late Stone Age.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
The felt manufactured in this town not having enough consistency or solidity, we took Aksu felt, which is better than this of Khotan, though inferior to the felt of Russian Turkestan.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Bokhara, bounded on the north by Russian Turkestan, was once the most famous state of Central Asia.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
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