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Turkmen

From MedBib.com - Medicine & Nature

Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:

• Of or relating to Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, specifically:
  • Turkmen SSR, that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union
  • Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan
• Turkmen people, an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
• Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
• Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
• Oghuz Turks, 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
• Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus

Places

• Türkmən, Barda, Azerbaijan
• Türkmən, Goychay, Azerbaijan
• Türkmən, Qabala, Azerbaijan
• Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
• Turkoman (horse), the proper name of a thoroughbred race horse
• Turkmen, Tver Oblast, Tver Oblast, Russia (a small settlement near Moscow)

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