In response to revolts and charges of government corruption in Turkestan, Tsar Nicholas II sent Pahlen to lead a senatorial investigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

The part which is called Turkestan extends between Eastern Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, the Kirghiz.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

In a part of the vast land called Turkestan there is a great lake named Balhkash, of which we visited the shores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayesha, the Return of She] Reference

Moscow Police Detain Alleged 'Turkestan' Terrorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty] Reference

Turkestan troops are mixed Berdan and Bogdan rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

Still later narratives tell of his going to Turkestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

All traffic from and to Turkestan had to take this route.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

Caravans from across Turkestan bring us silks from Cathay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Turkestan, the government in 1851 offered prizes for speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

Turkestan contains 409,414 square miles with a population of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

Then Jenghiz turned westward and invaded Turkestan and Persia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Turkestan, but at that time the Hsiung-nu dominated the approaches to.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

Turkestan, he flung out a remark which was very comforting to my soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

Chinese campaign was undertaken against Turkestan in A.D. 73 under Tou.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

I thought that we might in the spring visit the Caucasus and Turkestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Eastern Turkestan until they threw off the Mongol yoke in A.D. 552, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Ramazan, with the enclosures from Herat and Turkestan, reached me last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Turkestan was in direct communication by rail and steamer with St. Petersburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Turkestan and Tibet when Nansen was preparing for his great journey northwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

India, Persia, and Turkestan gives it a special importance in a military sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

Turkestan and were in a position to divert the trade to themselves or cut it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

The J. regia is further cultivated in Turkestan gardens and in the Lowawschan Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference

On the North it is bounded by Turkestan, East by India, South by Beloochistan, and West by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

In a remote frontier town like Tunhuang, on the border of Turkestan, the life of the local.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

But the Amir asked us to mention, what I have hitherto forgotten, that there are in Turkestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

With the conquest of Bokhara and portions of Turkestan, or Independent Tartary, she has added some.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

It is believed that strong relations with eastern Turkestan began in this period, and the state of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

One outcome of this jade-fishing in Turkestan was the transference of the credit of life-giving to jade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

This is the great trade route from the markets of Turkestan and Central Asia generally to Kabul and India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

In one of my last conversations with Yakub Khan, he advised me 'not to lose sight of Herat and Turkestan.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Turkestan, and the Kota-Maleri beds of the Upper Gondwana series of India may possibly belong to this stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Zein-ul-Abdin introduced the Tibetan goat and the weavers of Turkestan, and originated the manufacture of the famous shawls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Having received intelligence that the enemy, if again defeated, intended to retire towards Turkestan, I directed Brigadier-General.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Russia in 1867 when she absorbed Turkestan, and this feeling was intensified in 1878, while the Treaty of Berlin was still pending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

Turkestan for alluvial gold and fresh water pearls, incidentally they also collected pebbles of jade for the purpose of making seals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Still farther east, in the extreme north-eastern angle of Ladákh and the Kashmiri states, a third route to Turkestan has been opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Transcaspian region, which is under the governor-general of Caucasus; the Kirghiz Steppes; Turkestan under separate governors-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference