Turkestan Province

Turkestan Province was a province in Afghanistan. It was located in northern Afghanistan in the region still known as Afghan Turkestan. In 1890, Qataghan-Badakhshan Province was separated from Turkestan Province. It is present in an administrative map of 1929,[1] but was abolished by the time of the 1946 population census.[2]

Not to be confused with Russian Turkestan.
Afghan Turkestan Province in 1929

Political administration

In the 19th century, Afghan Turkestan was governed by a governor (hakim) appointed by the Amir.[3] Below is a list of governors of Afghan Turkestan.

  • Naib Muhammad Alam Khan - ?-1873-?[3]

References
  1. Muḥammad, Fayz̤; Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad Kātib (1999). Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising. Markus Wiener Publishers. pp. XII. ISBN 9781558761551.
  2. "Afghanistan Provinces". www.statoids.com. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  3. Christine Noelle. State and tribe in nineteenth-century Afghanistan: the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863). Routledge, 1997. pp. 101

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