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Originally a large undefined area in central Asia, Turkestan covered
an area of 1.6 million square miles from the Caspian Sea into Xinjiang.
Along the Silk Road connecting China
to the Mediterranean, the area has
been conquered numerous times over the centuries, first by the Persians,
Chinese and Mongols. In the mid-1800s, the western portion was conquered
by Russia, and the area divided into Uzbek, Tadzhik and Kirgiz, and portions
into Kazakh from which the modern day nations of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan
and Tajikistanwere erected.
In 1876, Eastern Turkestan was occupied by the Manchu rulers and in
1884 annexed as Xinjiang. Today, East Turkestan
is an autonomous region
of China.
I was surprised that the republic of Turkestan in Russia was classified as
Chinese. The republic of Turkestan was the successor state of the imperial
province of Turkestan, mainly the modern Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and part of
Kazakhstan and is unrelated with China.
Jaume Ollé, 04 April 2013
You are right, of course. Turkestan have no relations with China. May be
authors mean "Eastern Turkestan"? People's Republic of Eastern Turkestan
was
proclaimed in 1943 and in 1949 became part of China.
Victor Lomantsov, 04 April 2013
image located by Valery Koba, 7 November 2020
Source:
http://www.vexillographia.ru/uzbekstn/index.htm
image located by Valery Koba, 7 November 2020
Source:
http://www.vexillographia.ru/uzbekstn/index.htm
On some of the badges of the members of the Central Executive Committee of
the TSSR, a red flag was depicted, on the top of which the letters T.C.C.P.
(TSSR) and in the free part the abbreviation ТурЦ И К (TurkTsIK). You can try to
rebuild the TSSR flag using this badge ... Although we have not yet been able to
find any documents on the existence of such a flag.
Andre Flicher,
11 November 2020
In the years 1921/22 to 1923/24, the Basmachi flag of Panturania was
used.
Jaume Ollé, 27 January 1997