People on Turkmenistan's street signs
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Magtymguly Pyragy
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Magtymguly Pyragy, born Magtymguly, was an Iranian-Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller, who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.
Türkmenbaşy
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On 22 October 1993, the Assembly of Turkmenistan officially changed the name of Saparmyrat Nyýazow, the first President of Turkmenistan from 1991 to 2006, to Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy. The name...
Saparmurat Niyazov
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Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov was a Turkmen politician and dictator who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from 1985...
Mämmetweli Kemine
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Mämmetweli Kemine is widely known as a Turkmen satirical poet whose works have become a key part of Turkmen literature.
Born in Sarahs, he studied at the Islamic madrassah in Bukhara.
Döwletmämmet Azady
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Döwletmämmet Azady was a Turkmen poet and Sufi scholar. He is the father of poet Magtymguly Pyragy, the "father of Turkmen literature".
Gurbansoltan Eje
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Gurbansoltan Niýazowa, known as Gurbansoltan Eje, was the mother of the first post-Soviet president of Turkmenistan, Saparmyrat Nyýazow ("Türkmenbaşy"). She was killed in the 1948 Ashgabat...
Alp Arslan
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Alp Arslan was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty and the empire. He reigned from 1063 until his assassination in 1072.
Atamyrat Nyýazow
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Atamyrat Nyýazow was a soldier in the Red Army during World War II from the Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan who was the father of the first post-Soviet president of Turkmenistan, Saparmyrat Nyýazow....