Russian Turkestan


Russian Turkestan

n (Placename) See Turkestan

Tur•ke•stan

(ˌtɜr kəˈstæn, -ˈstɑn)

n. a vast region in central Asia, from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi desert: includes the Xinjiang Uygur region in W China (Chinese Turkestan), a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.