Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Turkmenistan: A country in Central Asia
Since the earliest days of Türkmenistan’s independence, the Centre has offered English-language classes for a nominal fee.
2013, Victoria Clement, “Central Asia’s Hizmet Schools”, in Greg Barton, Paul Weller, Ihsan Yilmaz, editors, The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, part three (The Contexts of the Muslim World), page 1622 more examples
By this time the Latin Alphabet had been adopted officially by four Turkish-speaking nations: the Azerbaijānīs, the Yakuts, and two small North-Caucasian communities called the Balqars and the Qarachays. Its official adoption in Türkmenistan followed as from February and March 1928.
1928, Arnold J. Toynbee, Veronica Boulter Toynbee, editors, Survey of International Affairs, page 226The Turkoman nomads of Central Asia, who today inhabit the Türkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Türkmenistan) and the northern parts of Iran and Afghanistan (map 5, see page 92), represent perhaps the archetypical weaving society.[…]There are virtually no rugs of significance produced today in Türkmenistan, and the Turkoman tribes who live in Iran and Afghanistan, while they still weave the red rugs, have like all nomadic peoples changed both their lifestyle and their weaving style under the pressures of modern society.
1979, Walter B. Denny, Oriental Rugs, pages 91–92
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