1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Turkestan (town)

​TURKESTAN, or Hazret, a town of Russian Turkestan, inthe province of Syr-darya, on the railway from Orenburg toTashkent, from which it lies 165 m. to the N.N.W. Pop. (1897),11,592. It lies on the right bank of the Syr-darya river, 20 m.from it, at an altitude of 833 ft. It has a very old mosque of thesaint Hazret-Yassavi, which attracts many pilgrims. It is animportant dépôt for hides, wool and other produce ofcattle-breeding. The town was captured by the Russians in 1864.