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Turkmenistan



Türkmenistan

Türkmen Türkmenistan

Türkmenistan merkezi Aziýada bir döwlet. Goňşy döwletler: Owganystan, Eýran, Gazagystan we Özbegistan.
Түркменистан меркези Азияда бир дөвлет. Гоңшы дөвлетлер: Овганыстан, Эйран, Газагыстан ве Өзбегистан.

English 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.


Short name  Turkmenistan
Official name Turkmenistan
Status Independent country since 1991
Location Central Asia
Capital Aşgabat (Ashgabat)
Population 5,110,023 inhabitants
Area 388,100 square kilometres (149,800 sq mi)
Major languages Turkmen (official)
Major religions Islam, Eastern Orthodoxy
More information Turkmenistan, Geography of Turkmenistan, History of Turkmenistan and Politics of Turkmenistan
More images Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan (Category).

General maps

Map of Turkmenistan
Map of Turkmenistan
Provinces of Turkmenistan
Districts 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.

The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander
Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
Hellenistic successor states:
 
Kingdom of Ptolemy
 
Kingdom of Cassander
 
Kingdom of Lysimachus
 
Kingdom of Seleucus
Other states:
 
Rome
Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE)
The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)
Map of Scythia and Parthia 100 BC
Indo-Sassanide Empire
The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
Sassanide Empire
Sassanide Empire
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of the Caliphs
Caliphate around 750
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.
The region around 1000
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
The Khwarezmid Empire around 1220
Empire of Genghis Khan at his death in 1227
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:

 
Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)
The Timurid Empire 1405
The Timurid Empire 1405
Russian Empire
History of the Russian Empire (in German)
Central Asia in 1900
Russia in 1913
Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1924 Turkmenistan becomes a separate member republic of the Soviet Union
Evolution of the Soviet Union
The republics of the USSR
Turkmenistan inside the USSR
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union
Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

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