Ashgabat

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title: Ashgabat
text: Ashgabat is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city has a population of 1,030,063. 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 when it was known as Poltoratsk. Much of the city was destroyed by the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, but has since
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description: Capital and largest city of Turkmenistan
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashgabat
date created: 2002-06-13T16:13:16Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T09:14:26Z
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