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Definition of: Turkestan
A region of central Asia that extended from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi Desert and was divided by the Pamir and Tien Shan mountain systems, incorporating the Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tadzhik, Turkmen, and Uzbek S.S.R. (called Soviet Central Asia) during the era of the Soviet Union; and Chinese Turkestan, comprising the Sinkiang-Uigur Autonomous Region.
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