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Turkestan

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Noun

1. turkestan, turkistan

a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Turkestan

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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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Turkestan

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region in central Asia, extending from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi Desert, inhabited by Turkic-speaking peoples: divided into Russian Turkestan, Chinese Turkestan

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Turkestan

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See Turkistan.

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