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Turkmenia

Turkmenia

9.9
The former name of Turkmenistan when it was a Soviet republic
  • proper noun
  • Archaic
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  • In Turkmenia, one child dies every hour.
  • Republic of Turkmenia

Examples

  • Two ferries evacuated about 660 Armenians, mostly women and children, from Baku across the Caspian to Krasnovodsk, a city in the republic of Turkmenia, Soviet TV said.

  • The most magnificent of desert cats, the cheetah claims a range that extends across southern Turkmenia to the tableland of Us Tyurt.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • During the Soviet era, Turkmenia was primarily focused on cotton production and agricultural development.

Synonyms

Turkmenistan
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A country in Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, north of Iran, once part of the Soviet Union

is the older name used especially for the Soviet era republic
Turkmen
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  • Literature
6.9

A former Soviet republic in Central Asia now called Turkmenistan

is the historic name for that Soviet-era republic

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Turkmenia = Turkmen (transparent) = Turkmen + ia

Formed by adding the country-name suffix '-ia' to 'Turkmen', meaning 'land of the Turkmen', which is clear to learners familiar with similar country names.

Etymology

Turkmenia comes from the name of the people Turkmen and the ending -ia, which turns a people's name into a place name and together mean 'land of the Turkmen'. That's why Turkmenia was the name used for the country now called Turkmenistan during the Soviet period in Central Asia.