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Also Known As Turkestan

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Hungarian-British archaeologist
Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev
Russian general
al-Fārābī
Muslim philosopher
Kaufmann, detail of an engraving
Konstantin Petrovich Kaufmann
Russian general
Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhaylovich
Nikolay Przhevalsky
Russian explorer
Burnes, detail from an engraving by E. Finden
Sir Alexander Burnes
British explorer
Yelü Dashi
emperor of Western Liao dynasty