East Turkestan Republic

East Turkistan Republic (ETR) may refer to:

  • First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934), Islamic republic centered on the city of Kashgar
  • Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949), Soviet-backed Turkic people's republic in northern Xinjiang

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or republic:

    “Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
    —Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)

    “It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)