Turkestan Province

The Province of Turkestan (Persian: ولایت ترکستان, romanized: Wilāyat-i Turkistān), historically also known as Balkh, Afghan Turkestan or Lesser Turkestan and since the 1940s as the Province of Mazar-i-Sharif, was a province of the Emirate of Afghanistan and later the Kingdom of Afghanistan, situated in the north of the country in the region historically known as Afghan Turkestan.