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Chinese Turkestan

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noun

  1. the E part of the central Asian region of Turkestan: corresponds generally to the present-day Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there.

From Time Magazine Archive

From an air base in China New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson reported that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut.

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Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your architecture must be in stone or marble, and that is precisely what you do not get in Chinese Turkestan.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules

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