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| | TURKESTAN - LoveToKnow Article on TURKESTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | East or Chinese Turkestan, sometimes called Kashgaria, is a region in the heart of Asia, lying between the Tian-shan ranges on the north and the Kuen-lun ranges on the south, and stretching east from the Pamirs to the desert of Gobi and the Chinese province of Kan-su (98 E.). |
 | | The total population, excluding Kulja and Dzungaria, is estimated by A. Kuropatkin at 1,200,000, by M. Pyevtsov at 2,000,000, and by Sven Hedin at I,8oo,ooo to 2,000,000. |
 | | The Chinese entered Dzungaria in 1758, and there perpetrated an appalling massacre, the victims being estimated at one million~ The Kalmucks fled, and Dzungaria became a Chinese province, with a military colonization of Sibos, Solons, Dahurs, Chinese criminals and Moslem Dzungars. |
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