"Chinese Turkestan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884, A. H. Keane, editor, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: East Asia: Chinese Empire, Corea, and Japan, New York: D. Appleton and Company, pages 58–59",
          "text": "Greek and Chinese traders met on the great \"Silk Route\", which passed this way, while Buddhist missionaries, Arab dealers, the great Venetian, Marco Polo, followed by other European travellers in mediæval times, had all to tarry in the oases of Chinese Turkestan on their long journeys across the continent.",
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          "ref": "1935, Mildred Cable, Francesca French, The Making of a Pioneer, Hodder & Stoughton, page 105",
          "text": "It was midsummer when the three travellers I entered that strange town which is the capital of Chinese Turkestan. The Turki calls it Urumchi, but the Chinese have named it Tihwafu, though they familiarly refer to it as \"Red Temple.\"",
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          "ref": "1973 October 28, “Paintings featured on stamps”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1",
          "text": "The horses in these paintings were gifts presented to Emperor Chien Lung (1736-1796) of the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) by chieftains from Chinese Turkestan where the uprisings of Western Mongols and Moslems in 1750's had just been suppressed. Chien Lung cherished those horses so much that he ordered his court painter, Castiglione, to portray them on silk.",
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          "text": "By 1698 Tzevan-Ravdan had solidified his mastery over the Zunghar Khanate. In 1697 he had quickly moved his forces into Galdan's former domains in Chinese Turkestan to achieve domination there, too.",
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