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Turkestan

Turkestan or Turkistan is a small but ancient city in the . There are many historical sights in this relatively well preserved, 1600-year-old city.
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  • Type: City with 228,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Hazrat-e Turkestan, Yassy”, “Hazrat-i Turkestan”, “Turkistan”, “Türkistan”, “Turkiston”, and “Yasi”
  • Address: Туркестан городской акимат
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi.

Museum
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The is a mausoleum in the city of Turkestan, in southern . The structure was commissioned in 1389 by Timur, who ruled the area as part of the expansive Timurid Empire, to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum of the famous Turkic poet and Sufi mystic, Khoja Ahmed Yasawi.

Turkestan

Latitude
43.3019° or 43° 18′ 7″ north
Longitude
68.2704° or 68° 16′ 13″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
217 metres (712 feet)
Open location code
8JMC872C+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 214887132
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1517945
Wiki­data ID
Q848638
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Turkestan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تركستان”
  • Armenian: “Թուրքեստան”
  • Asturian: “Turkistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türkistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türküstan”
  • Bashkir: “Төркөстан”
  • Basque: “Turkestan”
  • Belarusian: “Туркестан”
  • Bulgarian: “Туркестан”
  • Catalan: “Shawghar”
  • Catalan: “Turkiston”
  • Catalan: “Turquestan”
  • Catalan: “Yasi”
  • Catalan: “Yassi”
  • Catalan: “Yassy”
  • Catalan: “Yasy”
  • Cebuano: “Turkestan”
  • Central Kurdish: “تورکستان، کازاخستان”
  • Chechen: “Туркестан”
  • Chinese: “图尔克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “图尔克斯坦市”
  • Chinese: “图爾克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “土耳其斯坦”
  • Chinese: “突厥斯坦”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Türkistan”
  • Czech: “Turkestán”
  • Dutch: “Türkistan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تركستان”
  • Esperanto: “Turkistano”
  • Estonian: “Türkistan”
  • Finnish: “Turkestan”
  • Finnish: “Turkistan”
  • Finnish: “Türkistan”
  • French: “Turkestan”
  • French: “Türkistan”
  • Georgian: “თურქესტანი”
  • German: “Türkistan”
  • Greek: “Τουρκιστάν”
  • Hebrew: “טורקיסטן”
  • Hindi: “तुर्किस्तान (शहर)”
  • Hindi: “तुर्किस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Türkisztán”
  • Indonesian: “Hazrat-i Turkestan”
  • Indonesian: “Turkestan”
  • Indonesian: “Turkistan”
  • Indonesian: “Türkistan”
  • Indonesian: “Turkiston”
  • Indonesian: “Yasi”
  • Irish: “Turkistan”
  • Italian: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Italian: “Shavgar”
  • Italian: “Turkistan”
  • Italian: “Türkistan”
  • Italian: “Yasi”
  • Japanese: “テュルキスタン”
  • Japanese: “トルキスタン市”
  • Kazakh: “Türkistan qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Türkistan”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан”
  • Kazakh: “تۇركىستان قالاسى”
  • Korean: “투르키스탄”
  • Korean: “튀르키스탄”
  • Latvian: “Tirkistana”
  • Latvian: “Turkistāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Turkistanas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Mongolian: “Түркистан хот”
  • Mongolian: “Түркистан”
  • Northern Frisian: “Turkistaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkestan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkistan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Türkistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkestan i Kasakhstan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkestan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Түркістанm”
  • Norwegian: “Turkistan”
  • Novial: “Turkıstan”
  • Ossetian: “Туркестан”
  • Persian: “ترکستان، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “حضرت ترکستان، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “حضرت ترکستان”
  • Polish: “Turkiestan”
  • Portuguese: “Turquestão (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “Turquestão”
  • Romanian: “Turkistan, Kazahstan”
  • Romanian: “Turkistan”
  • Russian: “Туркестан”
  • Russian: “Туркистан”
  • Russian: “Хазрети-Туркестан”
  • Russian: “Шавгар”
  • Serbian: “Turkestan”
  • Serbian: “Туркестан”
  • Serbian: “Түркістан”
  • Slovenian: “Turkestan”
  • Slovenian: “Turkistan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورکوستان (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورکوستان”
  • Spanish: “Hazrat-i Turkestan”
  • Spanish: “Turkestan”
  • Spanish: “Turkestán”
  • Spanish: “Türkistan”
  • Swedish: “Turkestan”
  • Swedish: “Türkistan”
  • Tajik: “Туркистон”
  • Tatar: “Төркистан”
  • Thai: “เตอร์กิสถาน”
  • Turkish: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Turkish: “Şehri Türkistan”
  • Turkish: “Türkistan”
  • Turkish: “Yasi”
  • Ukrainian: “Туркестан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Turkistan”
  • Urdu: “ترکستان (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “ترکستان”
  • Uzbek: “Turkiston shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Turkiston”
  • Uzbek: “Туркистон”
  • Venetian: “Turkistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ترکستان، قازقستان”
  • Western Panjabi: “حضرت ترکستان”
  • Yue Chinese: “突厥斯坦 (哈薩克)”

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