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Chinese Turkistan

Chinese Turkistan is the alternative form of Chinese Turkestan.

Meaning of 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

Questions about Chinese Turkistan

What is Chinese Turkistan the alternative form of?
Chinese Turkistan is the alternative form of Chinese Turkestan.

Words near Chinese Turkistan in the dictionary

  1. Chinese truffles
  2. Chinese trumpet vine
  3. Chinese trumpet vines
  4. Chinese trumpetfish
  5. Chinese Turkestan
  6. Chinese Turkistan
  7. Chinese unicorn
  8. Chinese unicorns
  9. Chinese Valentine's Day
  10. Chinese vermicelli
  11. Chinese violet

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