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Turkmenistan
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Türkmenistan |
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Türkmenistan
Türkmenistan merkezi Aziýada bir döwlet. Goňşy döwletler: Owganystan, Eýran, Gazagystan we Özbegistan.
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Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia. The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian, meaning "land of the Turkmen". It is bordered by ► Afghanistan to the southeast, ► Iran to the southwest, ► Uzbekistan with ► Karakalpakstan) to the northeast, ► Kazakhstan to the northwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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| Short name |
Turkmenistan |
| Official name |
Turkmenistan |
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Independent country since 1991 |
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Central Asia |
| Capital |
Aşgabat (Ashgabat) |
| Population |
5,110,023 inhabitants |
| Area |
388,100 km² |
| Major languages |
Turkmen |
| Major religions |
Islam, Eastern Orthodoxy |
| More information |
Turkmenistan, Geography of Turkmenistan, History of Turkmenistan and Politics of Turkmenistan |
| More images |
Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan (Category). |
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General maps
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Map of Turkmenistan |
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Map of Turkmenistan |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Turkmenistan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Turkmenistan.
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
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Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
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Indo-Sassanide Empire |
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The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control. |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
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Caliphate around 750 |
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Map of the Western (purple) and Eastern (blue) Göktürk Khaganates at their height, ca. 600 CE. Lighter areas show direct rule; darker areas show spheres of influence. |
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The region around 1000 |
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Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
Mongol Empire
By 1294 the empire had split into:
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{{left|Image:1533-1896.jpg.gif|Between 1869 and 1885 the region is conquered by the Russian Empire, partly annexed to [[:w:en:Bukhara}] and the Khanate of Khiva. This map shows the Russian expansion from 1533 to 1896|Bukhara}] and the Khanate of Khiva. This map shows the Russian expansion from 1533 to 1896]]
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Russian Empire |
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History of the Russian Empire (in German) |
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Central Asia in 1900 |
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Russia in 1913 |
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Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1924 Turkmenistan becomes a separate member republic of the Soviet Union |
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Evolution of the Soviet Union |
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The republics of the USSR |
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Turkmenistan inside the USSR |
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Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union |
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Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989 |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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