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 REGIONAL CORNER: ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan, is the country's largest city and primary economic, industrial, administrative, and educational center.
Ashgabat is also the gateway to business in Turkmenistan, a Central Asian country with huge reserves of natural gas and petroleum.
With a population of 407,000, Ashgabat is located in the southern part of Turkmenistan at the foot of the Kopet Dag mountain range in the Kara Kum desert.
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 Ashgabat on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ashgabat was founded in 1881 as a fortress.
ASHGABAT SUMMIT AGENDA ON CASPIAN SEA TO BE PREPARED IN FEB..
Legendary racehorses could prove financial boost; Letter from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/ashgabat.asp   (255 words)

  
 Turkmenistan at MokumTV
Turkmenistan is largely a desert with cattle and sheep raising, intensive agriculture in irrigated area.
Turkmenistan is important to world energy markets because it contains the world's third largest reserves of natural gas, with estimates of the country's total gas resource base ranging as high as 535 trillion cubic feet.
Turkmenistan was part of the kingdom of ancient Persia and was later (8th-19th cent.) ruled by the Arabs, the Seljuk Turks (see KHOREZM), JENGHIZ KHAN, TIMUR and the TIMURIDS, and the Uzbeks.
www.turkevi.nl /turkmen0.htm   (2130 words)

  
 Ashgabat : Ashgabat, Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ashgabat (also Ashkabat, Ashkhabad, Ashgabad) is the capital city of Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic.
The name is believed to derive from a corruption of the Arabic Ishq (Love) and the Persian suffix abad (built), and hence loosely translates as "The city built by/from love".
They say also that the King of Spayne is to one or two periwigg shops about the Temple, having been very much at Jervas's in the morning; and there I think I shall fit myself of one.
www.termsdefined.net /as/ashgabat,-turkmenistan.html   (384 words)

  
 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Pictures
Ashgabat, formerly Ashkhabad, capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, in the southwestern part of the country.
Ashgabat is situated in an oasis near the Garagum Desert and the border with Iran.
Ashgabat is the site of the Turkmen Academy of Sciences, a university, and a museum of fine arts.
www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Turkmenistan/Ashgabat   (179 words)

  
 Turkmenistan, Map and Flag
Turkmenistan is largely desert country with intensive agriculture in irrigated oases and large gas and oil resources.
However, Turkmenistan's cooperation with the international community in transporting humanitarian aid to Afghanistan may foreshadow a change in the atmosphere for foreign investment, aid, and technological support.
Turkmenistan's economic statistics are state secrets, and GDP and other figures are subject to wide margins of error.
www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Turkmenistan.html   (1096 words)

  
 Welcome
The capital city of Turkmenistan boasts four theatres (an opera and ballet theatre, the Drama Theatre, the Theatre of Russian Drama and a children's theatre), a philharmonic society, cinema halls and museums.
Ashgabat is a green city created by man on the border of the Garagum desert.
Turkmenistan is one of more unspoiled, more beautiful and more fascinating places you ever visited and "Turkmensiyakhat" do its best to realize tourism potential of Turkmenistan.
www.turkmens.com /asgabat.html   (4469 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan (formerly Turkmenia) is bounded by the Caspian Sea in the west, Kazakhstan in the north, Uzbekistan in the east, and Iran and Afghanistan in the south.
Turkmenistan declared its sovereignty in Aug. 1990 and became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States on Dec. 21, 1991, together with ten other former Soviet republics.
Turkmenistan was limited to exporting gas to its impoverished central Asian neighbors, who were unable to pay their bills.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108058.html   (812 words)

  
 Turkmenistan - Travelling to Turkmenistan - Holidays in Turkmenistan - www.reiswijs.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Connects Turkmenistan with the rest of the Central Asian republics and thence to Moscow and the rest of the CIS.
The territory of Turkmenistan has been populated since ancient times, as armies from one empire to another decamped on their way to more prosperous territories.
Turkmenistan is the most ethnically homogeneous former Soviet republic in Central Asia.
www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/asia/turkmenistan/turkmenistan.html   (914 words)

  
 Ashgabat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The city was founded in 1881 as a military fortification to replace the village of Ashgabat.
The British Embassy, Ashgabat is responsible for services from advising British travellers to issuing visas, promoting trade and investment opportunities, and diplomatic relations between the UK...
Ashgabat, 19 August 2004 (nCa) --- Under the media reforms in Turkmenistan that...
www.toursurf.com /resources/3/Ashgabat.html   (429 words)

  
 Turkmenistan News.Net
Turkmenistan News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
This particular portal features all the latest breaking Turkmenistan news, collating headlines and stories from a variety of sources, including global TV networks, major newspapers, news wires, and our own dedicated journalists.
Links to Turkmenistan sports sites, and a regional map are also features of our site, and we regularly provide polls of general interest.
turkmenistannews.net   (290 words)

  
 Inspection of Embassy Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (ISP-I-03-02)
Embassy Ashgabat has developed a positive relationship with the chief of state, overcoming his neutrality policies and obtaining important benefits for the war against terrorism.
Turkmenistan is not receptive to security and law enforcement assistance programs.
Although $10.6 million is available for such activities in FY 2002, only a fraction of this has been obligated, and still less has been actually delivered.
oig.state.gov /oig/lbry/isprpts/eur/26624.htm   (216 words)

  
 Turkmenistan Airlines - T5 - Ashgabat - Turkmenistan - Mr Baymunad Bayryev, Chief Executive Officer - ATI, Air ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Turkmenistan Airlines is continuing with plans to build an all-Boeing passenger fleet following a go-ahead from the country’s president.
Turkmenistan Airlines has today launched a new weekly service between the Turkmenistan capital Ashgabat and Manchester in the northern UK.
Turkmenistan Airlines has taken delivery of the first of three Boeing 717-200 aircraft, becoming the first central Asian operator of the type.
www.airtransport.com /ALLANDING_1494.htm   (340 words)

  
 Polling stations empty for vote in Turkmenistan, so officials lug ballot boxes door-to-door   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Polling stations were nearly empty Sunday in elections for Turkmenistan's rubber-stamp parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door-to-door in this nation ruled by a former Soviet Communist boss who has been declared president-for-life.
However, polling stations in the capital of Ashgabat were almost empty.
After casting his ballot, a resident of the capital said he had not followed the campaign of the candidate he voted for.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/19/international0946EST0439.DTL   (492 words)

  
 ABC News: Turkmenistan Celebrates Melon Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Aug 14, 2005 — Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader on Sunday congratulated citizens of the ex-Soviet republic on the Turkmen Melon Day he established to honor the favorite fruit of the sun-drenched Central Asian nation.
The nation currently grows 500 varieties of melon, including the Czar Melon, grown to honor President Saparmurat Niyazov, and the Golden Age, meant to symbolize prosperity under the president, the Agriculture Ministry said.
He was elected president in 1992 in the wake of the Soviet collapse, and has since created a personality cult around himself.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1036710   (212 words)

  
 Turkmenistan - Day 1 - We leave for Istanbul
Ashgabat was destroyed by an earthquake on October 6, 1948, so virtually the whole city has been rebuilt since then.
In Turkmenistan the heel is uncovered, and the men wear the traditional baggy Turkmen pants, and they also wear a hat.
In Turkmenistan, there are no questions, they just cut with scissors over the head and they are divorced.
www.squiresweb.com /uzbek/day01.htm   (1247 words)

  
 Scott Todd's Ashgabat Journals
Recently Turkmenistan has reached agreements with Ukraine and Armenia to be paid the billions (yes, that's nine zeros) of dollars that they owe it for natural gas.
As advertised it was all part of the Turkmenistan Vice Squad's well-intentioned efforts to improve the morality of the Turkmen citizenry, namely by arresting the prostitutes.
According to a memo we got from PC Turkmenistan country director Ann Conway, about her meeting with the education minister, "Minister Abalakov stressed that the intent of the changes is to improve the quality of education.
www.chaihana.com /scotta.html   (11206 words)

  
 U.S. Embassy, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Homepage
Today, he met President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, and discussed areas of mutual interest, including security cooperation and the importance of the promotion of democratic and economic reform.
He thanked the President for his support of the Proliferation Security Initiative and for his support of the war on terrorism, and welcomed the President’s decision that Turkmenistan would deny overflight to aircraft carrying weapons of mass destruction, related materials, and missiles and components.
This site has been produced and is maintained by the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in cooperation with the Regional Program Office (Vienna, Austria) of the U.S. Department of State.
turkmenistan.usembassy.gov   (280 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1924.
In 1998-2004, Turkmenistan suffered from the continued lack of adequate export routes for natural gas and from obligations on extensive short-term external debt.
Overall prospects in the near future are discouraging because of widespread internal poverty, the burden of foreign debt, the government's irrational use of oil and gas revenues, and its unwillingness to adopt market-oriented reforms.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/tx.html   (1055 words)

  
 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan!
Since Ashgabat is on the edge of the Kara Kum Desert, there is a lot of dust floating around town.
Before Turkmenistan became independent from the Soviet Union the ethnic Russians all shopped at this market.
There was a very odd mannequin in the restaurant that had a gas mask attached to a bottle of Bacardi rum...
homepage.mac.com /douglasm/Archive/turkmenistan/turkthree.html   (774 words)

  
 Hotels in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
There is also a poolside bar and the Merhaba bar for guests to enjoy.Special ConditionRates confirmed in USD are guaranteed in U.S. dollars when paid in U.S. cash or traveler's checks.
Guests can also enjoy Turkmen, Turkish and international cuisines at the Silk Road restaurant, or relax with a drink at the Bosphorus Bar.Special ConditionRates confirmed in USD are guaranteed in U.S. dollars when paid in U.S. cash or traveler's checks.
For more information on hotels in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, click here.
athensohio.net /online-hotel-reservations/Turkmenistan/Ashgabat   (213 words)

  
 Turkmenistan President's Cup
Ashgabat, February 10-16 NB: Turkmenistan is politically divided into five velayats and the capital city.
IX Turkmenistan President Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi Cup NB: Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi is the official title of the Turkmen head of state.
Ashgabat, February 11-19 Group A Round 1 [Feb 12] Nisa 1-0 Neman [Azat Kuljagazov 80] NIS: Rustam Iskandarov, Kamil Mingazov (B.Meredov 75), Amandurdy Annadurdyyev, Omar Berdyyev, Dayanchklych Urazov (Arif Mirzoyev 77), Rahmanguly Bailiyev, A.Meredov (Yazkuli Hojageldyyev 80), Nazar Bairamov, Kurbangeldy Durdyyev, Didarklych Urazov (Krendelev 86), Guvanchmukhamed Ovekov (Azat Kuljagazov 72).
www.rsssf.com /tablest/turkmpres.html   (849 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan iashulularyng VIII maslakhaty iashulular syrdamy il ogly Turkmenbashy [[proceedings]], in Turkmen, Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, 1998, 138 pp., PB, SUBJECT(S)/KEYWORD(S): Politics US$6.5
Mnogostoronnie i dvustorononnie soglasheniia i t.d.], in Turkmen, Russian, Ashgabat, 1999, 225 pp., pB, SUBJECT(S)/KEYWORD(S):
Annaeva, R. Kh., Frazeologicheskie ustoichivye slovosochetaniia v pamiatnikakh turkmenskogo iazyka [Stable phraseological constuctions in old written sources of the Turkmen Language], in Russian, with 12p.
www3.sympatico.ca /meabooks/html/turkmenistan.htm   (5834 words)

  
 Turkmenistan Bibliography
"Turkmenistan and the Turkmen." Pages 262-82 in Zev Katz, ed., Handbook of Major Soviet Nationalities.
Istoriya religioznykh verovaniy narodov Turkmenistana (A History of the Religious Faiths of Turkmenistan).
Turkmenistan i turkmeny v kontse XV-pervoy polovine XVI v (Turkmenistan and the Turkmen at the End of the Fifteenth-First Half of the Sixteenth Centuries).
www.country-studies.com /turkmenistan/bibliography.html   (989 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - President bans lip synching in Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — He has outlawed opera and ballet and railed against long hair and gold teeth, but now Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov is determined to wipe out another perceived scourge: lip synching.
Saparmurat Niyazov has led the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan for 20 years.
Niyazov has ordered a ban on lip synching performances across the tightly controlled Central Asian nation, citing "a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art," the president's office said Tuesday.
www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2005-08-23-turkmen-singing_x.htm   (315 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Turkmenistan
One-half of its irrigated land is planted in cotton, making it at one time the world's tenth-largest producer.
Poor harvests in recent years have led to a nearly 46% decline in cotton exports.
In particular, the 20% rate of GDP growth is a guess.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/tx.html   (1102 words)

  
 Business & Economy
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Preparation of a feasibility study of satellite and wireless communications network for air traffic control at the Ashgabat Airport.
Purchase of licorice root and extract and negotiation with the Ministry of Health on manufacturing licorice extract in Turkmenistan.
www.turkmenistanembassy.org /turkmen/business/uscomp.html   (701 words)

  
 Ashgabat Hotels
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Hotels, Resorts, Bed and Breakfasts, Motels
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 INFORMATION ON FIANCE'(E) VISAS, U.S. Embassy, Ashgabat, turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
BY LAW: By law, a fiance(e) petition can only be filed in the United States at an office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Once the petition has been approved, INS will notify you and forward the petition to Moscow for all fiance(e)s residing in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
For residents of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia, the petitions will be forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.
www.usemb-ashgabat.rpo.at /fiance.html   (974 words)

  
 Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan web design & development firms on The Firm List
Your source for finding web design & development firms as well as individual web designers, developers, programmers and other multimedia & new media professionals from all over the world, including Turkmenistan.
This list of web design firms located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is not a complete list, rather it is just the firms that have either been submitted or found by the editor.
Listings are geographically organized and should consist only of firms offering web design and/or development services.
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