Turkestan
/ˌtəːkɪˈstɑːn
/ /ˌtəːkɪˈstan/(also Turkistan)
A region of central Asia between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert, inhabited mainly by Turkic peoples. It is divided by the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains into eastern Turkestan, now the Xinjiang autonomous region of China, and western Turkestan, which comprises present-day Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Rhymes
- partition wall
- partitive
- partitive genitive
- partitively
- partitivity
- partizan
- partless
- Partlet
- part load
- partly
- part-Maori
- part music
- partner
- partner in crime
- partnerless
- partners' desk
- partnership
- partnership desk
- partnership policing
- partners' pedestal desk
- partness
- partocracy
- partocrat
- partocratic
- part of speech