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Turkestan

• 1920–1924
• Turkestan Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic
• former part of Soviet-Russia

Contents

• Flags

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Numbers and Facts

• History

• Origin of the Country's Name

Flags

1919–1921,
Flag of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World





1921–1924,
Flag of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World



look also:
Flag history of the soviet republics of the USSR

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of Turkestan showed the usual communist design, a single-coloured red bunting with the initials of the state in the upper staff quadrant.

Source: Volker Preuß

Numbers and Facts

Area: ca. 620.000 square miles

Inhabitants: 5.221.963 (1920), thereof 41.3% Uzbeks, 18.8% Kazakhs, 10.0% Kyrgyz, 7.7% Tajiks, 5.1% Turkmen, 1.4% Caracalpaks, and Russians, Tatars and others

Capital: Tashkent

official Language: Russian

other Languages: Turkmen, Uzbek, Toijik, Kirghiz, Karakalpak, Persian

Currency: Russian/Soviet currency

Time Zone: GMT + 5 h to + 6 h

Source: Wikipedia (RU)

History

5th century · immigration of Turk nations: Kirghiz, Turkmen

8th century · islamization by invading Arabs

10th–11th century · Maverannah State

15th century · migration of Uzbeks (named after Ösbek Khan, a ruler of the Golden Horde) under the leadership of Abulkhair Khan

1500 · Shaybani Khan (grandson of Abulkhair) conquers Bukhara and Samarkand and takes over the rule in Maverannah, establishment of the Khanate of Bukhara

18th century · partially under control of the Chanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand

1865–1876 · gradually Russian conquest, establishment of the Gouvernement Turkestan

1917 · bolshevist coup d’état in Russia

April 1918 · Bolshevists proclaim the Turkestanian Autonomous Soviet Republic

1918–1923 · civil war

24th of September 1920 · proclamation of the Turkestanian Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic

30th of December 1922 · the Turkestanian Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic becomes as component of Soviet-Russia a part of the Soviet Union

27th of October 1924 · dissolution of the Turkestanian Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic, separation in the Soviet Republics of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, cede of territories to Kazakh ASSR, Tajikistan is first of all an autonomous socialist republic within Uzbekistan

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, World Statesmen, Wikipedia (D), Wikipedia (RU)

Origin of the Country's Name

The name "Turkestan" has its roots in its residents, many different Turk nations.

Source: Volker Preuß