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3 unusual facts about Kaka, Turkmenistan


14th Punjab Regiment

The 19th Punjabis, while serving in Persia had the unique distinction of being actively engaged against the Bolsheviks in 1918 during the hard-fought actions at Merv, Kaka and Dushak in the Russian Turkestan.

19th Punjabis

In February 1916, it moved to Persia, where it had the unique distinction of being actively engaged against the Bolsheviks in 1918 during the hard-fought actions at Merv, Kaka and Dushak in the Russian Turkestan.

Malleson mission

There was further action at Kaka, Turkmenistan on 28 August, 11 and 18 September, which saw a minor success for the British, encouraging the Transcaspian and British leadership in Meshed.


1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown

One of the most serious of these occurred in the early morning of 21 June 1978, at 06:21 AM, when a Soviet radar site near the village of Bagir, not far from Ashkabad, detected four slow moving contacts which came from Iran and penetrated 15 to 20 kilometers into the Soviet airspace near Dushak, in Turkmenistan.

Alligator gar

In November 2008, a 0.5- to 0.6-m-long alligator gar was caught in the north of Esenguly, Turkmenistan by two officials of Turkmenistan Fishery Protection.

Amangeldy Hydyr

A number of his paintings have been acquired by the Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts and other museums in Balkanabat and some 55 pictures have been purchased in private collections in Turkmenistan, the United States, Russia, Germany and Poland.

Atamurat-Kerkichi Bridge

The Atamurat-Kerkichi Bridge is a bridge in Lebap Province of Turkmenistan, built over the river Amu Darya.

Atif Bashir

In March 2011, Bashir represented Pakistan in their unsuccessful 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualifying campaign, appearing at the heart of the defence alongside Zesh Rehman in defeats to Turkmenistan and India.

Avitoluvarus

The first specimens were found from the Danata Formation Lagerstätten, of the Thanetian epoch of Turkmenistan, where they were originally thought to be smaller or juvenile individuals of the true louvar, Luvarus necopinatus.

Bukharan markhor

Today it is found in few scattered populations, for example in Kugitang Nature Reserve in easternmost Turkmenistan.

C. maximus

Clianthus maximus, the kakabeak or kōwhai ngutu-kākā in Māori, a woody legume shrub species native to New Zealand's North Island

Central Bank of Turkmenistan

Ancient Akhal-Teke horses, known as "horses from heaven", are part of the national heritage of Turkmenistan, which is considered an international center of horse grooming.

Dhandwar

Many singers come every year such as Harbajan Mann, Manmohan Varis, K. S. Makhan, Kuldeep Manak, Yudvir Manak,mohumad sadik,Gippy Grewal ,Rai jujar, Kuldeep Rasila, Geeta Zaildar,Shera jasbir,botu shah and kaka shah, Sabar Koti, Satwinder Bitti, Satwinder Buga, Jelly Manjitpuri,ranvir dusanj,preet brar and many more and in 2004 the Chief Minister of PunjabParkash Singh Badal came to this village.

Dinesh Nayak

Nicknamed Kaka, Nayak represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place.

Eldar Mansurov

"Bayatılar", lyrics by Vahid Aziz and music by Eldar Mansurov was performed by Brilliant Dadashova and was released in Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Europe (including Turkey, Greece, Germany, Spain, France), the Arab World and Brazil.

Etruscan shrew

In Asia, it was observed in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Borneo, Bhutan, China (Gengma County only), Burma, Georgia, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia (Malaysian part of Borneo island), Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.

Extreme points of Russia

Kushka in present-day Turkmenistan has been the southernmost point of the Empire since 1885.

The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan, and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan, at 7,495 m.

Foreign relations of Turkmenistan

Former President Niyazov stated that the neutrality would prevent Turkmenistan from participating in multi-national defense organizations, but allows military assistance.

Galkynysh gas field

The Galkynysh gas field, formerly known as Iolotan gas field or South Yolotan – Osman field ) is a large natural gas field near Ýolöten in Mary Province of Turkmenistan.

Greater Khorasan

Khorasan in its proper sense comprised principally the cities of Mashhad, Nishapur and Sabzevar (now in northeastern Iran), Balkh, Herat and Taloqan (now in Afghanistan), Merv, Nisa and Abiward (now in southern Turkmenistan), and Samarqand and Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan).

Gurbansoltan Eje

Gurbansoltan Eje (earlier Ýylanly or Yilanli) is a town and capital of Gurbansoltan Eje District in the Daşoguz Province of Turkmenistan.

Haji Alakbar Mosque

The Haji Alakbar mosque was constructed in 1890 by renowned architect of the time Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi who also built Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque and Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha, Agdam Mosque in Agdam, mosques in Horadiz and Qocahmadli villages, Tatar mosque in Odessa, Ukraine and Qababaghlilar Mosque in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

HTTU Aşgabat

International Turkmen-Turkish University Football Club (Ashgabat), usually referred to as HTTU, is a Turkmenistan professional football club based in Ashgabat.

Ice palace

Saparmurat Niyazov, the recently deceased president of Turkmenistan, ordered the construction of a huge ice palace near the capital city of Aşgabat in April 2004.

International Equestrian Sports Complex

It is located in the Ruhabat District, Ahal Province; on Kopetdag Avenue, situated near the National museum of wildlife of Turkmenistan.

International Turkmen-Turkish University

HTTU Aşgabat repeated champion of Turkmenistan among major league teams.

Joey Suk

But, due to their Indonesian citizenship haven't done yet, they can only play for the second leg in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, March 9, 2011.

Kaka Joginder Singh

Kaka Joginder Singh (1918 in Gujranwala - December 23, 1998 in Bareilly) (also known as Dharti Pakad, meaning "one who clings") was a textile owner who contested and lost over 300 elections in India.

Kaka, Turkmenistan

Kaka also known as Kaakhka, Kaakcha or Chaacha is a town and capital of Kaka District in the Ahal Province of Turkmenistan.

Kako language

Once grouped with the Gbaya dialect cluster and often still referred to as part of an undefined "Gbaya-Kaka" group, Kako is now grouped in the Bantu subgroup of the Niger–Congo language family.

Kidarites

In Europe the Kidarites became known as the Avars, first mentioned in Balkan province of Turkmenistan attacking the Sabirs in 460 AD and who the following century (in 557) entered Europe under the leadership of Kandik.

Kushk River

The river gives its name to Kushk, the chief town in the Afghan province of Herat, situated some 20 miles from the border, and to Kushka (now Serhetabat), a former military post on the border of Turkmenistan.

Main Turkmen Canal

The length of the canal was to be more than 1200 kilometers, beginning from Takhiatash, a town/city in Uzbekistan, then extended 10 km from the town of Nukus to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Coast of Turkmenistan.

Margu

It was located in the valley of the river Murghab which has its sources in the mountains of Afghanistan, and passes through Murghab District in modern Afghanistan, and then reaches the oasis of Merv in modern Turkmenistan.

Marseille turn

A number of famous footballers have been known to use it, including Nenad Marcetic, Zinedine Zidane, Alessandro Del Piero, Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Kaká and Ronaldo.

Nurmuhammet Hanamow

Nurmuhammet Çaryýewiç Hanamow (in Russian : Нурмухаммед Ханамов, Nurmukhammed Khanamov, born 1 January 1945 in Tejen, in the Ashgabad region of the Turkmen SSR) is a Turkmen politician.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary

The Trust plans to "bring back to the ecosanctuary native species that would have been there in times past" including Kiwi, seabirds, Kākāriki, South Island robin, Saddleback, Kākā, native bats, Tuatara and Jewelled gecko.

Registan

He captured Khiva in 1506 and in 1507 he swooped down on Merv (Turkmenistan), eastern Persia, and western Afghanistan.

Ruakaka

Ruakaka is a combination of the two words rua and kaka, rua being a Maori word for "two" and kaka a native parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

Sarah Leah Whitson

While Whitson was praising Seif al-Islam as a reformer, journalist Michael Totten was comparing Libya to North Korea and Turkmenistan and describing Seif al-Islam as seeking to export “his father’s prison state system...to as many countries as possible.”

Sony marketing

Sixty-four images of the Brazilian footballer Kaká were used inside the BRAVIA-drome to demonstrate that with increased frame rate (speed at which the zoetrope rotated), there is increased smoothness of motion.

Turan Depression

Three of the largest cities in the Turan Depression are: Daşoguz in Turkmenistan, Nukus in Uzbekistan, and Urganch, also in Uzbekistan.

Turkmen people

The expanding Russian Empire took notice of Turkmenistan's extensive cotton industry, during the reign of Peter the Great, and invaded the area.

Turkmenistan national ice hockey team

The sport is unfortunately not so popular in Turkmenistan is ice hockey, until the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov ordered the construction of an ice palace in the desert foothills of the Kopet Dag.

Turkmenistani parliamentary election, 2008–09

Polling stations were set up at Turkmenistan's 27 diplomatic missions, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and London.

Ulug Depe

Ulug Depe is an ancient Bronze Age site in the foothills of the Kopet Dag Mountains in the Karakum Desert of Kaka District (Kaahka) in the Ahal Province of south-eastern Turkmenistan.

Ýolöten

Ýolöten or Iolatan (Russian:Ёлётен) is a town and capital of Ýolöten District in the Mary Province of Turkmenistan.

Some 10 billion cubic meters of gas will be exported to Iran per year from the Ýolöten gas field in the future due to a 2009 agreement between the governments of Iran and Turkmenistan involving people such as Gholam Hossein Nozari, the Iranian Minister of Oil and the Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister, Täçberdi Tagyýew.

Zoetrope

It features 64 images of the Brazilian footballer Kaká.


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