| Russian Turkestan Русский Туркестан (Russian) | |||||||||||||||
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| Governorate−General of Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1867–1917 | |||||||||||||||
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 Provinces of Russian Turkestan in 1900 | |||||||||||||||
| Anthem | |||||||||||||||
| Bozhe, Tsarya khrani! Боже, Царя храни! "God Save the Tsar!" | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Tashkent | ||||||||||||||
| Demonym | Turkestani | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
• (1897) | 1,707,003 km2 (659,078 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• (1897) | 5,280,983 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 23 July 1867 | ||||||||||||||
| 1917 | |||||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Oblasts: 5 (since 1899) | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||||||||
Russian Turkestan (Russian: Русский Туркестан, romanized: Russkiy Turkestan) was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian territories, and was administered as a Krai or Governor-Generalship. It comprised the oasis region to the south of the Kazakh Steppe, but not the protectorates of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva. It was populated by speakers of Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tajik.