Turkmen
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Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:
  • Of or relating to Turkmenistan
    Turkmenistan
    Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

    , a country in Central Asia, specifically:
    • Turkmen SSR
      Turkmen SSR
      The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Turkmen SSR for short, was one of republics of the Soviet Union in Central Asia. It was initially established on 7 August 1921 as the Turkmen Oblast of the Turkestan ASSR. On 13 May 1925 it was transformed into Turkmen SSR and became a...

      , that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union
    • Turkmen language
      Turkmen language
      Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan...

      , the national language of Turkmenistan
  • Turkmen people
    Turkmen people
    The Turkmen are a Turkic people located primarily in the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and northeastern Iran. They speak the Turkmen language, which is classified as a part of the Western Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages family together with Turkish, Azerbaijani, Qashqai,...

    , an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
  • Iraqi Turkmen
    Iraqi Turkmen
    The Iraqi Turkmen are an ethnic group who mainly reside in northern Iraq. Estimates of their numbers vary dramatically, in accordance with Iraq's assimilation policies no realistic and independent census results have been revealed regarding the Iraqi Turkmen population...

    , an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
  • Syrian Turkmen
    Syrian Turkmen
    Syrian Turks are Syrian citizens of Turkish descent, who have been living in the Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire before its dissolution and continue to live in the modern country of Syria...

    , an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
  • Oghuz Turks
    Oghuz Turks
    The Turkomen also known as Oghuz Turks were a historical Turkic tribal confederation in Central Asia during the early medieval Turkic expansion....

    , a large branch of Turkic peoples
    • Specially, Muslim Nomadic Oghuz Turks (the most common usage of the word "Turkmen", in 10th-18th centuries)
  • In Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire, 'Turkmen' often refers to those now called Yörük
    Yörük
    The Yorouks, also Yuruks or Yörüks are immigrants, ultimately of Thracian descent,some of whom are still nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia and partly Balkan peninsula...

  • Karapapak
    Karapapak
    The Karapapak are a small ethnic group of Turkic-speaking people who mainly live in Azerbaijan, in Georgia, in the northeast of Turkey near the border with Georgia and Armenia, primarily in the provinces of Ardahan , Kars and Iğdır, and in Iran...

    s or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
  • Turkoman horse
    Turkoman Horse
    The Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, was an Oriental horse breed from the steppes of Central Asia, now extinct. Modern descendants include the Akhal-Teke and the Yamud horse breeds. Horses bred in Turkmenistan are still referred to as Turkoman, and have similar characteristics...

    , or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
  • Turkoman (horse)
    Turkoman (horse)
    Turkoman is an American thoroughbred stallion racehorse. Owned and bred by Corbin J. Robertson, he was sired by 1989 United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee Alydar out of the Table Play mare, Taba, who was the Champion 2 year old Filly in Argentina.Raced under Corbin J. Robertson's Saron Stable...

     (born 1982), proper name of a thoroughbred race horse

Places

  • Türkmən, Barda, Azerbaijan
  • Türkmən, Goychay, Azerbaijan
  • Türkmən, Qabala, Azerbaijan
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