Turkestan

or Tur·ki·stan

[tur-kuh-stan, -stahn]

noun

a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan), a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Related formsTur·ke·stan·i·an, adjective, noun

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Historical Examples of turkestan

It is the meeting-place of the caravan roads from India, Persia, and Turkestan.
The Coming Conquest of England
August Niemann
After seventeen days' march they reached the Lake of Lobnor in Turkestan.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
Jules Verne
Turkestan was the next part of the empire to claim attention.
China and the Manchus
Herbert Allen Giles
I thought that we might in the spring visit the Caucasus and Turkestan.
The Red Lily, Complete
Anatole France
Khokand is one of the most important centres of trade in Turkestan.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7
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British Dictionary definitions for turkestan

Turkestan

Turkistan

noun

an extensive region of central Asia between Siberia in the north and Tibet, India, Afghanistan, and Iran in the south: formerly divided into West (Russian) Turkestan (also called Soviet Central Asia), comprising present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the S part of Kazakhstan, and East (Chinese) Turkestan, approximating to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

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