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How to use Turkestan in a sentence

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He was a custodian of literature, in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and the Uigur language of Turkestan.
We remain concerned by the deteriorating rights situation in Tibet and East Turkestan.
Mr Metcalfe, a polyglot Oxford classicist, strikes an exotic figure in what used to be called Turkestan.
Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe.
Beluchistan, shown as an independent kingdom along with Afghanistan and Turkestan, in an 1880 map.
In autumn 1922 was named the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar of the Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic, since February 1924 worked at the Executive Committee and was its representative in Mongolia.
The Pax Islamiya that China could be looking for would aim to cut off foreign support to the East Turkestan Groups in order to protect two of its key objectives.
Nothing, though, can justify the brutal treatment they mete out to religious and ethnic minorities in Tibet as well as in Inner Mongolia and in Eastern Turkestan.
The harsh and paranoid rhetoric hurled from Beijing this week at Tibetans and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is torn straight from the copybook that Lenin used to subjugate Turkestan.
A fertile oasis, it was a major trading station on the Silk Road between the Pamir and Kashgar, as well as the centre of the independent kingdoms of Chinese Turkestan.
Examples from Classical Literature
Such migration may possibly account for the appearance of a people using a centum language so far east as Turkestan.
It is the meeting-place of the caravan roads from India, Persia, and Turkestan.
Jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.
When I was in Turkestan a young officer, a cousin of the Sultanas, was ill.
The fishing is very productive, the fish being exported to Turkestan, merv and Russia.
But what was that to me who had escaped from the torments of Turkestan?
When I was in Turkestan I became acquainted with one of these men.
Through this gorge runs the high road to Turkestan and Ghuzni.
I bought one in Turkestan for 6, which I was told was cheap.
Khokand is one of the most important centres of trade in Turkestan.
Even as early as 1717 Russia had been pushing into what was then known as Turkestan, with Peter the Great's failed attempt to capture Khiva.
After seventeen days' march they reached the Lake of Lobnor in Turkestan.
Turkestan was the next part of the empire to claim attention.
I thought that we might in the spring visit the Caucasus and Turkestan.
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