East Turkistan
East Turkistan is the alternative form of East Turkestan.
Meaning of East Turkestan
Proper noun
East Turkestan
- A geographic region in northwestern China; in modern usage, a synonym of Xinjiang used by the East Turkestan independence movement.
- It seems to me that I entered the hills, from the Indian side, at Barakau on the 25th of June last; that I reached the ‘top’ on the Depsang plains on the 14th of this month; and that to-day I have emerged on the Central Asian side of the hills into the plains of Eastern Turkestan.[1876 [1874 September 27], J. Scully, “A Contribution to the Ornithology of Eastern Turkestan”, in Allan Hume, editor, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, volume...
Words formed from East Turkistan
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- What is East Turkistan the alternative form of?
- East Turkistan is the alternative form of East Turkestan.
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