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12 March 2010

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Rug lexicon - T

Caucasian Talish rug ca. 1880Talish
Area in Southeastern Caucasus. Most Talish rugs are easy to recognize be course of their long format and empty fields.
Book search: TALISH

Turkestan ( Turkistan )
"Turkestan is a historic region of central Asia. Western, or Russian, Turkestan extended from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Chinese frontier in the east and from the Aral-Irtysh watershed in the north to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the south. Eastern, or Chinese, Turkestan comprised the western provinces of China, now the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region . Southern, or Afghan, Turkestan referred to a small area of N Afghanistan. Politically, what was formerly called Russian Turkestan and Soviet Central Asia includes the nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the southern portion of Kazakhstan."
Source: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: http://www.bartleby.com/65/tu/Turkistn.html - Book search: TURKESTAN

 

 

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