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The name of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country".The name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological system.
Turkmenistan became independent on October 27, 1991, amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union (commemorated annually). The former head of Turkmenistan's Communist Party at the time of independence, Saparmurat Niyazov, was elected president of the newly independent nation in an uncontested election. At the 25th Congress of the Communist Party ...
Turkmenistan is a sovereign Turkic country located in Central Asia. [1] The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian , meaning "land of the Turkmen ". The name of its capital, Ashgabat , derived from Persian as well, loosely translating as "the city of love".
stan (Persian: ستان stân, [n 1] estân or istân [n 2]) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" [1] or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. [2] It is widely used by Iranian languages as well as the common Turkish languages (excluding Siberian Turkic) and other languages.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Oghuz Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia This article is about the Central Asian ethnic group. For other ethnic groups, see Turkmen (disambiguation) § Ethnic groups. Ethnic group Turkmens Türkmenler Түркменлер توركمنلر Turkmens in folk costume at the 20th ...
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.
Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat) [a] [b] is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. [8] It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border.
According to the legend (bottom right of the map), Turan encompasses regions including modern Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northern parts of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. This area roughly corresponds to what is called Central Asia today. List of the areas mentioned in the map as part of Turan: 1. Khwarazm 2.