Turkestan

Turkestan (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. It also contains some of the great cities of Persian culture, notably Samarkand and Bukhara, and still has a substantial Iranian population, known today as Tajiks.

Further Reading

V.V. Barthold "Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion" (London) 1968 (3rd Edition)

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René Grousset "L'empire des steppes" (Paris) 1965

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David Christian "A History Of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia" (Oxford) 1998 Vol.I

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Svat Soucek "A History of Inner Asia" (Cambridge) 2000

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