Atlas of Turkmenistan
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General maps
Map of Turkmenistan |
Map of Turkmenistan |
Provinces of Turkmenistan |
Districts of Turkmenistan |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Turkmenistan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Turkmenistan.
The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE |
Map of the Empire of Alexander |
Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
Hellenistic successor states: Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Other states: |
Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE) |
The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE) |
Map of Scythia and Parthia 100 BC |
Indo-Sassanide Empire |
The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control. |
Sassanide Empire |
Sassanide Empire |
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
Age of the Caliphs |
Caliphate around 750 |
Map of the Western (purple) and Eastern (blue) Göktürk Khaganates at their height, ca. 600 CE. Lighter areas show direct rule; darker areas show spheres of influence. |
The region around 1000 |
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194 |
The Khwarezmid Empire around 1220 |
Empire of Genghis Khan at his death in 1227 |
Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
Mongol Empire By 1294 the empire had split into: Empire of the Great Khan ( |
The Timurid Empire 1405 |
The Timurid Empire 1405 |
Russian Empire |
History of the Russian Empire (in German) |
Central Asia in 1900 |
Russia in 1913 |
Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1924 Turkmenistan becomes a separate member republic of the Soviet Union |
Evolution of the Soviet Union |
The republics of the USSR |
Turkmenistan inside the USSR |
[[|border|251x400px]] | Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union |
Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989 |
Satellite maps
Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
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