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{i} Turkestan, mountainous region of central Asia populated by Turkic people
or Turkestan Historical region, Central Asia. This somewhat broad geographic region situated between Siberia to the north and Tibet, India, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south derived its name from its inhabitants, who were predominantly of Turkic ancestry. The total area of more than 1,000,000 sq mi (2,600,000 sq km) was bisected by the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges, forming West and East Turkistan. West Turkistan, which included what is now Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan, came under Russian rule in the 19th century. East Turkistan was annexed by China in the 8th century; it included what is now the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang
a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West

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a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression