See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

TURKESTAN, or HAZRET  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

Turkestan, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Syr-darya, on the railway from See also:

• ORENBURG

Orenburg to See also:

• TASHKENT, or TASHKEND

Tashkent, from which it lies 165 m. to the N.N.W . Pop . (1897), 11,592 . It lies on the right See also:

• BANK

bank. of the Syr-darya See also:

• RIVER

river, 20 M. from it, at an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 833 ft . It has a very old See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque of the See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint Hazret-Yassavi, which attracts many pilgrims . It is an important depbt for hides, See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool and other produce of See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-breeding . The town was captured by the Russians in 1864 .