Ashgabat | |
---|---|
State | |
Country | Turkmenistan |
Capital | |
Population | 909,000 |
Postcode |
Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat; Ашгабат, pronounced [ɑʃʁɑˈbɑt], Persian: عشق آباد; Russian: Ашхабад), formerly named Poltoratsk (Russian: Полтора́цк, IPA: [pəltɐˈratsk]) between 1919 and 1927, is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It is situated between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range in Central Asia. It is also near the Iran-Turkmenistan border.
The city was founded in 1881 on the basis of an Ahal Teke tribal village, and made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.
Cordoba | |
---|---|
State | Córdoba |
Country | Argentina |
Capital | |
Population | 0 |
Postcode | X5000 |
C
Trzcianka [ˈtʂt͡ɕaŋka] (German: Schönlanke) is a town in the Greater Poland region in Poland....
Alice may refer to: Alice (given name), including a list of notable people and fictional...
Wattens is a market town of the Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is...
Le Saint (Breton: Ar Sent) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western...