Russian Turkestan
Britishnoun
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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
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
During our crossing of Russian Turkestan he had maintained his incognito like a great personage in a foreign country; but now on the Chinese railways he resumed the rank which belonged to him.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules
Strange to say, he came from Russian Turkestan.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland
Frontier Province, &c., on the south by Baluchistan, on the west by the Persian province of Khorasan, and on the north by Bukhara and Russian Turkestan.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
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