Meaning Of The Word Turkestan

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Turkestan Meaning

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

Turkestan in British English
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, Tajik

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