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Chinese Turkistan en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Chinese Turkestan.
    • Russia reached the frontiers of Afghanistan and Chinese Turkistan, while in the far east by the treaty of Aigun (1858) it obtained from China territory running east from the rivers Amur and Ussuri to the Pacific seaboard, and the naval base of Vladivostok was founded. 1962, Kazimierz Maciej Smogorezwski, “RUSSIA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 19, →OCLC, page 702, column 1:
    • Since Emperor Ashoka’s reign (268–232 BCE), Indian civilization and art have expanded from Khotan to Chinese Turkistan and then disseminated to the Far East. 2023 December 13, Kim Thu Le, “New Aesthetics in History: The Changes of Idealism”, in The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts, volume 19, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 50: