List of renamed cities in Turkmenistan
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The following is the list of cities in Turkmenistan
that underwent a name change in the past.
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...
that underwent a name change in the past.
- Bekdaş → Garabogaz
- Charjuy → Leninsk (1924) → Charjuy = Charjou = Çarjew (1927) → TurkmenabatTürkmenabatTürkmenabat , formerly and since the medieval times, Chardzhou , also spelled Çärjew, Chardjui, Charjou, Chardzhev, Charjev, Chärjew, or Charjew , ancient Amul, is a town in Turkmenistan, capital of Lebap Province...
(1999) - Çeleken → HazarHazarHazar may refer to*the Turkish for Khazar* Lake Hazar, Turkey*Hazar mountains, Iran*Hazar, a city in Turkmenistan *the Al-Hazar station of the Cairo subway* Hazar means the bird nightingale in Arabic Language....
- Gazanjyk → BereketBereketBereket is a city in south-western Turkmenistan in Balkan Province. It lies approximately equal distance from Gumdag and Gyzylarbat to the south-east....
- Gyzyl-arbat → Serdar (city)
- Krasnovodsk → TurkmenbashiTürkmenbasy, TurkmenistanTürkmenbaşy , formerly known as Krasnovodsk and, more properly, Kyzyl-Su, is a city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea. It is located at latitude 40.0231 North; longitude 52.9697 East, at an altitude of 27 meters. The population was 86,800, mostly...
(1993) - Kushka = Guşgy → SerhetabatSerhetabatSerhetabat is a small town in the Mary Province in Turkmenistan, located in the valley of the Kushka River. Population: 5,200 ....
- Nebit-dag → BalkanabatBalkanabatBalkanabat , formerly Nebit Dag, is a city in western Turkmenistan, and the capital of Balkan Province. It is located at , at an altitude of 17 meters, some 400 kilometers from Ashgabat. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 87,822. Balkanabat lies at the foot of the Balkan...
- Poltoratsk → Ashgabat