Tag: Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan, Turkmenia, officially Turkmen Turkmenistan Respublikasy, German Republic of Turkmenistan, state in southwest Central Asia with (2019) 5.9 million residents; The capital is Ashkhabad. Location Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea to the west, Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, northeast and east, Afghanistan to the south and Iran to the southwest. Turkmenistan is predominantly occupied by the Turan lowlands (almost four fifths of the country), which stretches between…

Literature The motifs in the oldest Turkmenic sago tax are common to the Turkish and Iranian peoples of the area and developed into orally traditioned epics of both heroic and romantic nature. The most famous verse story is “Kör-oglu” (“The Son of the Blind”, 16th-16th century), with a vengeance at the center. A classic in the 18th century Turkmen word art was Mahtumkuli, who renewed the lyrical form. Countryaah: Population…

Turkmenistan climate As the southernmost region of the former Soviet Union, Turkmenistan is by far the hottest country in Central Asia. However, it is not unbearable due to the desert climate with low humidity. The country has a characteristic continental climate with large temperature differences over the course of the day and the year. The southern part of the country is a little less continental than the north, in winter…