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Tag "Turkestan"

tag name: Turkestan type: Geographic locations
web link: Turkestan
variations or
mis-spellings:
Chinese Turkistan
related tags: Central Asia
referring tags: Khuqand, Uzbekistan
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan

"Turkestan" has been tagged in:

1 result from the Main Catalog

2 results from the Chronology

from the main catalog (1 result)

  1. Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed, An, by Robert D. Crews (2009). History of the establishment of Tsarist power in Turkestan and the goal of earning support from their Muslim territories. Includes discussion of the Bahá'í Faith in Ashkabad and Russian/Bahá'í mutual political interests in Persia and Turkey. (Offsite.)

from the Chronology (2 results; collapse)

  1. 1888-00-00 — Jamál Effendi, accompanied by Hájí Faraju'lláh-i-Tafrishí, embarked on a long journey to the East visiting Burma, Java (Indonesia), Siam (Thailand), Singapore, Kashmir, Tibet, Yarqand, Khuqand in Chinese Turkistan, and Afghanistan. [EB123–4; PH22]
  2. 1938-02-05
      Bahá'ís in the Soviet Union were persecuted by the authorities. [BBR473, BW8p87-90, 179-81, BW14p479-481, SETPE1p155; YS6]
    • Five hundred Bahá'í men were imprisoned in Turkistán. [Bw8p89]
    • Many Persian Bahá'ís living in various cities of the Soviet Union were arrested, some are sent to Siberia, others to Pavladar in northern Kazakhstan and yet others to Iran. [BW8p87, 179, 184]
    • Six hundred Bahá'í refugees-women, girls, children and a few old men, went to Iran, most to Mashhad. [BW8p89]
    • The Bahá'í Temple in Ishqábád (now Ashgabat, Turkmenistan) was confiscated and turned into an art gallery. [BDD122, BW8p89]
    • The Bahá'í schools were ordered closed. [BW8p89]
    • Spiritual Assemblies and all other administrative institutions in the Caucasus were ordered dissolved. [BW8p89]
    • Shoghi Effendi included all these territories in his Ten Year Plan, unveiled in 1953, as follows:
      • The National Spiritual Assembly of Germany and Austria was made responsible for opening Albania, Estonia, Finno—Karelia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (Moldova), Romania and White Russia (Belarus) and for consolidating Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (S.F.S.R.), and Yugoslavia.
      • The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of lran was made responsible for opening Kirgizia (later named Kyrgyzstan), Mongolia, Tajikistan (Tadzhikistan) and Uzbekistan, and for consolidating Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Turkmenistan.
      • The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States was responsible for opening Kazakhstan, Sakhalin, and the Ukraine. [BW20p196-197]
 
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