Turkestan

Tur·ke·stan  (tûrk-stn, -stän)

See Turkistan.

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Turkestan, Turkistan [ˌtɜːkɪˈstɑːn]

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(Placename) 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 consisting of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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Turkestan - a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West Turkistan Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations