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TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURKESTAN, or HAZRET  , a
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town of
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Russian Turkestan, in the province of Syr-darya, on the railway from
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Orenburg to Tashkent, from which it lies 165 m. to the N.N.W . Pop . (1897), 11,592 . It lies on the right
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bank. of the Syr-darya
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river, 20 M. from it, at an altitude of 833 ft . It has a very old mosque of the saint Hazret-Yassavi, which attracts many pilgrims . It is an important depbt for hides, wool and other produce of cattle-breeding . The town was captured by the Russians in 1864 .

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