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.

Notable References

The fictional character Arslan, in a novel by the same name, was the ruler of Turkestan before taking over the rest of the world.

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