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3 unusual facts about Turkmen


Arabs in Sweden

It is worth mentioning that many of them might not actually be ethnically Arab but due to the general confusion between the meaning of Arab and other groups coming from the same area (such as the case of Kurds, Berbers, Turkmen, Assyrians, Roma etc.) the exact number of the actual Arab population in the Sweden may be greatly biased.

Arabs in the Netherlands

It is worth mentioning that many of them might not actually be ethnically Arab but due to the general confusion between the meaning of Arab and other groups coming from the same area (such as the case of Kurds, Berbers, Turkmen, Assyrians, Roma etc.) the exact number of the actual Arab population in the Netherlands may be greatly biased.

Tughril

Tughril united the Turkmen warriors of the Great Eurasian Steppes into a confederacy of tribes, who traced their ancestry to a single ancestor named Seljuq, and led them in conquest of eastern Iran.


1991 uprising in Tuz Khormato

The 1991 uprising in Tuz Khormato refers to the Peshmerga orchestrated uprising in the Kurdo-Turkmen town of Tuz Khormato.

A with diaeresis

Ä, known as A with diaeresis or A with umlaut, a letter Ä, ä of Latin-based German, Estonian, Finnish, Slovak, Swedish, Romani and Turkmen alphabets

Afghan National Anthem

This is the country of every tribe,
The land of Baloch and Uzbeks,
Pashtuns and Hazaras,
Turkmen and Tajiks.

Aleppo Governorate

The Turkmen live in about 140 villages, mostly in Al-Bāb, Jarāblus, and A'zāz.

Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

Two years later, a Turkmen traveller arrived in Astrakhan and announced to local authorities that the Oxus River, formerly flowing to the Caspian Sea, had been diverted by the Khivans to the Aral Sea in order to extract golden sand from the river waters.

Doruklu

Most of the village inhabitants are actually Tahtacı (Alevi- Turkmen) origin

Durdy Bayramov

Earlier in his career, when Turkmenistan was still part of the Soviet Union, he was a prize-winner of the Turkmen Komsomol in 1970 and of the USSR in 1972.

Emblem of Turkmenistan

The eight-point green starburst (known as the Rub El Hizb (۞), a symbol of Islam, to which a majority of Turkmen profess) with golden edges features in its center a red circular disc which carries sheaves of wheat, five carpet guls, and centered upon that a smaller blue circle with a lifelike (rather than heraldized) depiction of former President Saparmurat Niyazov's pet Akhal-Teke horse Yanardag, a source of pride for the Turkmen people.

Hamid Arasly

He was the author on works focused on the relation between Azerbaijani literature with Persian, Turkish, Uzbek and Turkmen literature.

International Turkmen-Turkish University

In 2003, at the International Turkmen-Turkish University team was created football club HTTU Aşgabat, speaking in various competitions among students, and then among the masters.

Iraqi Turkmen Front

In the 2010 Iraqi national elections, the ITF candidate in the Turkmen stronghold of Kirkuk, Arshad al-Salihi, won 59,732 votes as a part of Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya List.

Jimri

With his mentor dead and Turkmen power in central Anatolia at a low point, Jimri escaped to Afyonkarahisar where he organized further resistance.

Lakhnauti Turk

Lakhnauti Turk is a historic village, and founded by a group of Turkmen colonist who arrived from Central Asia some six centuries ago.

Languages of Afghanistan

Other regional languages, such as Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi and Nuristani are spoken by minority groups across the country.

Murghab River

The Murghāb River (Persian/Pashto: مرغاب), also called Margos, Margu and Margiana River (Old Greek: Μαργιανή), and also transliterated as Murgab (from Russian Мургаб) and Murgap (from Turkmen), is an 850 km long river in Central Asia.

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.

Orbelian Dynasty

The Orbelians survived the arrival of Timur Lenk and his Turkmen hordes in the 1380s, but in the collapse of Timur's empire into warring factions, Smbat, the last firm Orbelian ruler of Syunik, chose the wrong side and, on the capture of his stronghold of Vorotnaberd (south of Sisian) in 1410, decamped for Georgia where he died.

Ramian

Genetically, they are a mix of Turkmen, Kurdish and Parthian blood.

Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar

He argues that the Mamluk column of 1276 was largely consisting of Turkmen invading from the direction of Marash and that Marius Canard found no Arab source which mentions this raid, concluding that it had merely local significance.

Syrian Turks

In the vicinity of Hama and Homs, there are a number of villages which have a majority Turkmen population, including Houla, Aqrab, Talaf and Kafr Ram.

Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Construction

A number of noted Turkmen politicians studied at the university, particularly those in the economic sector including Annaguly Deryayev, Khodjamyrat Geldimyradov, Kakaev Yakshigeldy, Khadyr Saparlyev, Hydyr Saparlyýew and Täçberdi Tagyýew.

U with diaeresis

U with diaeresis (Latin) (Ü, ü) - an Estonian, Romani, Hungarian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen letter

Ýolöten

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.


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