Turkestan

Tur·ke·stan

 (tûr′kĭ-stăn′, -stän′)

See Turkistan.

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Turkestan

(ˌtɜːkɪˈstɑːn) or

Turkistan

n

(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, approximating to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

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Tur•ke•stan

(ˌtɜr kəˈstæn, -ˈstɑn)

n.

a vast region in central Asia, from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi desert: includes the Xinjiang Uygur region in W China (Chinese Turkestan), a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Noun

1.

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

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