1 2 Gladys D. Clewell, Holland Thompson, Lands and Peoples: The world in color, Volume 3, page 163. Excerpt: Never a single nation, the name Turkestan means simply the place of Turkish peoples.
1 2 Central Asian review by Central Asian Research Centre (London, England), St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). Soviet Affairs Study Group, Volume 16, page 3. Excerpt: The name Turkestan is of Persian origin and was apparently first used by Persian geographers to describe "the country of the Turks". It was revived by the Russians as a convenient name for the governorate-general created in 1867 and the terms Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc. were not used until after 1924.
↑ Annette M. B. Meakin, In Russian Turkestan: a garden of Asia and its people, page 44. Excerpt: On their way southward from Siberia in 1864, the Russians took it, and many writers affirm that, mistaking its name for that of the entire region, they adopted the appellation of "Turkestan" for their new territory. Up to that time, they assure us Khanates of Bokhara, Khiva and Kokand were known by these names alone.
↑ "San Jose News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Associated Press. 17 March 1934. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2018-03-02. QUOTE: "More than 2000 persons, including members of the British Consulate's staff, were reported today to have been massacred at Kashgar in Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan by fierce Tungan natives." The massacre, dispatches from Tashkent said, came in a bloddy battle between rebels and the military of the recently proclaimed 'independent government'."
