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    Turkestan Province (Persian: ولایت ترکستان, romanized: Wilāyat-i Turkistān) was a province in Afghanistan. It was located in northern Afghanistan in the...
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    East Turkestan or East Turkistan (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان, ULY: Sherqiy Türkistan, UKY: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (ئۇيغۇرىستان, Уйғуристан)...
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  • 19th century, there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan with Mazar-e Sharif as provincial capital. The province incorporated the territories...
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  • a province in Kazakhstan Turkistan (city), its administrative capital Russian Turkestan, a region in Russia Chinese Turkestan or East Turkestan, a region...
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    Russian Turkestan (Russian: Русский Туркестан, romanized: Russkiy Turkestan) was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian...
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    Province – dissolved in 1964 to create Paktia Province. Turkestan Province – dissolved somewhere between 1929 and 1946. Qataghan-Badakhshan Province –...
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    of East Turkestan (TIRET) was a breakaway Islamic republic centered on the city of Kashgar, located in the far west of China's Xinjiang Province. It is...
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    The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a short-lived satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan), which existed from 1944...
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    The Southern Turkestan Movement is a militant group that seeks independence for the Turkic tribesmen in the region of Southern Turkestan in Afghanistan...
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    The East Turkestan independence movement is a political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region...
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    Tajikistan (Sughd Province). Geography of Tajikistan Great Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian. Media related to Turkestan Range at Wikimedia...
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    the First East Turkestan Republic at the Battle of Kashgar (1934), bringing the Republic to an end. The Soviet Union invaded the province in the Soviet...
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  • Orak Balga (in the contemporary Jualy District), Syr-Darya Region, Turkestan Province, Russian Empire Died 10 June 1982(1982-06-10) (aged 71) Alma-Ata,...
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    The Chinese government asserts that the TIP is synonymous with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). ETIM has been described by scholars as demanding...
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  • Qataghan and Badakhshan was separated from the Afghan Turkestan province. Administration of the province was assigned to the Northern Bureau in Kabul. In 1963...
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    the oldest cave in the country, located in the Turkestan region on the territory of the Syrdarya–Turkestan State Regional Natural Park, it was discovered...
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  • The Turkestan Front (Russian: Туркестанский фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, which was formed on the territory of Turkestan...
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    Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO) was a secessionist Uyghur organization that advocated for an independent Uyghur state named East Turkestan in...
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  • Aralo-Caspia province 54 Turkestan province 55 Northern Baluchistan province 56 Western Himalaya province 57 Central Tien Shan province 58 Dzungaria-Tien...
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  • "(Video) "Dzhabhat Turkestan Janubi" (South Turkestan [Turkistan] Front) Forms In Opposition of Taliban (IEA) in Balkh Mazar-i-Sharif Province, Afghanistan...
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    Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic separatists declared an Islamic Republic of East Turkestan based on constitutionally-enshrined Sharia law. The short-lived separatist...
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    1758 C.E. The Qing dynasty to consolidate their authority in this western province of their Empire in 1764 C.E. built Hoi Yuan Chen on the Ili River and re-settled...
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    the former Russian protectorates of Khiva and Bukhara. Part of Russian Turkestan, it corresponded roughly to the territory of present-day Turkmenistan...
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    Fergana Province of Russian Turkestan. This arrangement was lasted till 1920. In 1890 Qataghan-Badakhshan District was separated from Afghan Turkestan and...
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    Oblast was one of the oblasts of the Russian Empire, a part of Russian Turkestan. Its center was Tashkent. The Syr-Darya Oblast was founded after annexing...
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  • The Afghan Turkestan Campaign of 1838-39 began in the winter of 1838 and ended in March 1839. The campaign was sent as a result of the tyranny of the...
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    (East Turkestan) against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China, from 1944 to 1946. The Ili Rebellion began with the East Turkestan National...
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    Great tit (redirect from Turkestan Tit)
    subspecies were often treated as a separate species, Parus bokharensis, the Turkestan tit. This form was once thought to form a ring species around the Tibetan...
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    Xinjiang (redirect from Xingjiang Province)
    English-language reference works often refer to the area as Chinese Turkestan, Chinese Turkistan, East Turkestan and East Turkistan. With a documented history of at least...
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    provinces were: Kabul Province / Central Province Kandahar Province Herat Province Turkestan Province Qataghan-Badakhshan Province The minor provinces were:...
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