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Facts

Also Known As Turkestan

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Turkistan: mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
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Key People

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Sir Aurel Stein
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Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev
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al-Fārābī
Muslim philosopher
Kaufmann, detail of an engraving
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Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhaylovich
Nikolay Przhevalsky
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Sir Alexander Burnes
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Yelü Dashi
emperor of Western Liao dynasty