"Transcaspia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1885, Armin Vambery, The Coming Struggle for India, London: Cassell, page 123:",
          "text": "[I]f we consider the extraordinary facility of communication produced, partly by the railway laid down in Transcaspia, partly by the opening of the road between Bokhara, Merv, and Sarakhs, we may well anticipate the unusual development which the Russian trade[.]",
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