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history of Turkmenistan

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In Turkmenistan: History
It is possible to follow the development of human habitation in southern Turkmenistan from Paleolithic times to the present. Some of the earliest traces of agriculture in Central Asia were discovered some 20 miles (32 km) north…
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formation of Commonwealth of Independent States

In Commonwealth of Independent States
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, by the Transcaucasian republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, and by Moldova. (The remaining former Soviet republics—
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incorporation into Soviet Union

In history of Central Asia: Soviet rule
(now Turkmenistan) in 1924, and the Uzbek S.S.R. (now Uzbekistan) in 1924. The plan was to will into being five new nations whose separate development under close surveillance and firm tutelage from Moscow would preempt the emergence of a “Turkistani” national identity and such concomitant ideologies…
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