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What does Turkestan mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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The fishing is very productive, the fish being exported to Turkestan, merv and Russia.
He was a custodian of literature, in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and the Uigur language of Turkestan.
When I was in Turkestan a young officer, a cousin of the Sultanas, was ill.
Such migration may possibly account for the appearance of a people using a centum language so far east as Turkestan.
When I was in Turkestan I became acquainted with one of these men.
It is the meeting-place of the caravan roads from India, Persia, and Turkestan.

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