Chinese Turkestan

Proper noun

Chinese Turkestan

1. Xinjiang.
   • Greek and Chinese traders met on the great "Silk Route", which passed this way, while Buddhist missionaries, Arab dealers, the great Venetian, Marco Polo, followed by other European travellers in mediæval times, had all to tarry in the oases of Chinese Turkestan on their long journeys across the...1884, A. H. Keane, editor, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: East Asia: Chinese Empire, Corea, and Japan, New York: D. Appleton and Company, pages 58–59
   • It was midsummer when the three travellers I entered that strange town which is the capital of Chinese Turkestan. The Turki calls it Urumchi, but the Chinese have named it Tihwafu, though they familiarly refer to it as "Red Temple."1935, Mildred Cable, Francesca French, The Making of a Pioneer, Hodder & Stoughton, page 105