"East Turkistan" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=East Turkistan}} East Turkistan
  1. Alternative form of East Turkestan Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: East Turkestan Derived forms: East Turkistani
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          "ref": "1866, “Relations of India with Greece and Rome”, in The Princeton Review, page 408:",
          "text": "The point of departure was Minnegara, the modern Ahmedpur on the Indus; thence it followed the great road still frequented through Cabulistan into Bactria. Here three roads diverged. One led across the Belurtag mountains to Central Asia, East Turkistan, the desert of Gobi, and Thibet, and was the avenue of trade with the seres inhabiting this region.",
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          "ref": "1879, Robert Needham Cust, “Notice of the Scholars who have Contributed to the Extension of our Knowledge of the Languages of British India during the last Thirty Years”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 11, London: Trübner and Co., page 64:",
          "text": "Mr. Shaw has also done good service in describing the form of the Turki language spoken in East Turkistan, which has now again passed under the Empire of China.",
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          "ref": "1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, page 9:",
          "text": "The general boundaries of East Turkistan are the Altai range on the northeast, Mongolia on the east, the Kansu corridor or the Su-lo-ho basin on the southeast, the K'un-lun system on the south, the Sarygol and Muztay-ata on the west, the main range of the T'ien-shan system on the north to the approximate longitude of Aqsu (80 deg. E), then generally northeast to the Altai system which the boundary joins in the vicinity of the Khrebët Nalinsk and Khrebët Sailjuginsk.",
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          "ref": "2009, Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 240:",
          "text": "The Manchu-Chinese replaced the Junghar imperial coinage of East Turkistan with Manchu-Chinese coins they began minting at Yarkand in 1759.",
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          "ref": "2013, Steve Finch, “China Courts Central Asia”, in The Diplomat:",
          "text": "For Anwar Yusuf Turani, a Washington D.C.-based school teacher and prime minister of the exiled government of East Turkistan – the pro-independence name for Xinjiang – all of this is too little too late by Beijing.\nEvasive about whether pro-independence supporters are present in Central Asia, he says that he communicates regularly with people in Xinjiang, even if it’s difficult with social media mostly blocked. “The Chinese government makes propaganda telling the people of East Turkestan that we should live in harmony, that the vast majority of the Uyghur people want to live with China,” Turani tells The Diplomat.",
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          "ref": "2020, “UHRP BRIEFING: Local Residents in Danger of Starving in East Turkistan”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Uyghur Human Rights Project, page 1:",
          "text": "The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland. Since mid-February, Uyghur-language social media has lit up with disturbing videos, photos, and other information providing evidence that a month-long coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown is leaving many East Turkistan residents hungry.",
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          "ref": "2020, Abhinandan Mishra, “‘India should support East Turkistan’s Independence from China’”, in The Sunday Guardian:",
          "text": "Q: Why are you and your party pushing for an independent East Turkistan? And which are the Chinese areas that you seek to be a part of it?\nA: China’s occupation of Tibet and East Turkistan is a challenge to the world’s conscience and legal justice system. The territory of East Turkistan and Tibet is a land occupied by the Chinese. These two were never part of China and they do not want to be a part of China in the future. China has no legal status to govern them. The Chinese have carried out genocide against Tibetans and people of East Turkistan. People of East Turkistan and Tibetans have realised that there will never be peace under China’s false, hypocritical, evil and racist policies. The independence of East Turkestan and Tibet will be beneficial for the whole world, including India.",
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