Ash·kha·bad

(äsh′kä-bäd′, -KHä-bät′)

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Ashkhabad

(Russian aʃxaˈbat) or

Ashgabat

(Placename) the capital of Turkmenistan. Pop: 598 000 (2005 est)

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Ash•kha•bad

(ˌɑʃ kəˈbɑd)

n.

a former name of Ashgabat.

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Noun

Ashkhabad - the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan

capital of Turkmenistan

Turkmenia, Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen - a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

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Ashjabad

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The Director of the State Agency also noted that in 2017 Kyrgyzstan sportsmen reached fruitful results in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashkhabad and Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku.

Kyrgyzstani sportsmen won 657 medals in 2017

Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR, Ashkhabad (English translation 1966 by Israel Program for Scientific Trans- lations, Jerusalem).

Potential of Some Nematophagous Fungi against Meloidogyne hapla Infection in Czech Republic

Khadzhibaev, "Perspektivnye demograficheskie problemy Tadzhikskoi SSR," materials of a conference held in Ashkhabad, 26-28 September 1974.

Central planning, local knowledge? Labor, population, and the "Tajik School of Economics"

Shved, 1982: Study of internal gravity waves in the lower thermosphere from observations of the nocturnal sky airglow [OI] 5577 A in Ashkhabad (translation).

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President Hassan Rouhani told reporters during a visit to Ashkhabad in early March that Iran and Turkmenistan are determined to activate a "south-to-north economic corridor" that starts with Oman, passes through Iran and leads to Uzbekistan through Turkmenistan.

Zarif: Iran, Oman to Build Gas Pipeline

In fact, the peace talks involving Taliban, the Hizb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the political opposition of Afghanistan and the government-backed Afghan High Peace Council were all set to start in the Turkmen capital Ashkhabad in early 2013, but at the last moment the talks were cancelled because of the opposition from the then Afghan President, Hamid Karzai.

Celebration of Two Decades of Neutrality Policy of Turkmenistan

For example, after Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, earthquake (October 5, 1948) as a result of leveling an increase in speed of vertical shift of Earth's crust with a maximum near Ashkhabad was identified.

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