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Russian Turkestan

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noun

  1. See Turkestan

"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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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

It is bounded on the N. by Russian Turkestan, on the W. by Persia, and on the E. and S. by Kashmir and the independent tribes of the North-West Frontier of India and Baluchistan.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The first application of Bolshevism to an Eastern people was in Russian Turkestan.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop

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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