The Battle of Geok Tepe in 1881 was the main event in the 1880/81 Russian campaign to conquer the Teke tribe of Turkmens. Its effect was to give the Russian...
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The First Battle of Geok Tepe was the main event in the 1879 Russian expedition against the Akhal Tekke Turkmens during the Russian conquest of Turkestan...
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honour of those killed in the Battle of Geok Tepe in 1881, in World War II, and in the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake. It is in the southwestern part of Ashgabat...
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an official holiday of Turkmenistan, commemorated on 12 January. It honors those who fell on 12 January 1881 defending the Geok Tepe fortress against the...
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Aleksey Kuropatkin (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
Skobelev’s invasion of Turkmenistan. Kuropatkin led the main assault at the Battle of Geok Tepe on January 24, 1881. He was awarded the Order of St. George (3rd...
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Gyzylarbat (section Persian city of Farava)
expeditions reached here, but the main battle was at Geok Tepe (see Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) and Battle of Geok Tepe (1881)). The modern city was established...
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Turkmens (redirect from History of a Turkmen nation)
area. Following the decisive Battle of Geok Tepe in January 1881, the bulk of Turkmen tribes found themselves under the rule of the Russian Emperor, which...
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Panjdeh incident (redirect from Battle of Kushka)
Krasno- vodsk Ash- gabat Geok Tepe Bukhara Khiva Tejend Serakhs PuliKhatun Zulfikar Merv Yoloten SaryYazy Panjdeh BalaMurghab to Herat The Panjdeh Incident...
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Ashgabat (redirect from Capital of Turkmenistan)
2014 in remembrance of those killed in the Battle of Geok Tepe in 1881, during World War II, and to commemorate of the victims of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake...
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Asad-bey Talyshkhanov (category Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class)
(Battle of Geok Tepe), including the siege and capture of the Geok Tepe fortress on January 12, 1881. For military successes in the Battle of Geok Tepe...
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Shafi Khan Qajar (category Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class)
promoted to poruchik rank on 1 August 1877 after several battles. He also took part in Battle of Geok Tepe from 22 July 1880 to 25 May 1881, for which he was...
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because of his widely-read book. Kaufmann's intrigues in Kabul provoked the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878–80. During the second battle of Geok Tepe Colonel...
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Ahal Region (category Regions of Turkmenistan)
southeast corner of the province, passing through two large reservoirs south of the city of Tejen. Ahal is known for the Battle of Geok Tepe of 1881, today...
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Mary Region (category Regions of Turkmenistan)
Russia's defeat of the combined Ahal and Merv Teke army at the Battle of Geok-Tepe in 1881, Russian forces sought to pacify and occupy the area of today's Mary...
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In 1881, the Saryk came under Russian control after the Battle of Geok Tepe and the creation of the Transcaspian Oblast. In 1885, the Saryk population...
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Ruhnama (category Culture of Turkmenistan)
are skipped except for the mention of Magtymguly Pyragy and the Battle of Geok Tepe. Soviet Turkmenistan is described in a single page, where it is blamed...
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Turkmenistan (redirect from Welayatlar of Turkmenistan)
the Ahal area of Turkmenistan. However, in 1881, the last significant resistance in Turkmen territory was crushed at the Battle of Geok Tepe, and shortly...
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Turkmen Sahra (category Regions of Iran)
independence and their country was split in two lands. After the Battle of Geok Tepe over one million Turkmens fled through Iran over to Afghanistan were their...
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would be the Transcaspian Oblast. Akhal-Teke Battle of Geok Tepe List of treaties Treaty of Turkmenchay Treaty of Gulistan Adle 2005, p. 468. Adle 2005, p...
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Turkmen tribes (category Turkic peoples of Asia)
of Central Asia Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) Khivan campaign of 1873. Peyrouse, Sebastien (2015-02-12). Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development...
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Sumbar River (category Rivers of Turkmenistan)
55°16′29″E / 37.99111°N 55.27472°E / 37.99111; 55.27472. Chandyr River Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) Geptner, V. G., Sludskij, A. A. (1972). Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo...
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Muslims. Prior to the Battle of Geok Tepe in January 1881 and subsequent conquest of Merv in 1884, the Turkmen "retained the condition of predatory, horse-riding...
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wars culminated in the Battle of Geok Tepe in 1881, where General Skobelev massacred 7,000 Turkmens at the desert fortress of Geok Depe, near modern Ashgabat;...
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Mikhail Skobelev (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Second Degree)
at Geok Tepe. Some have suggested that he was suffering from delusions of grandeur and showing signs of political ambition. In the last years of his...
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Nikolai Pavlovich Lomakin, General during the conquest of Khiva, defeated at the Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) Oleg Lomakin (1924–2010), Russian realist painter...
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Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) Battle of Geok Tepe Geok Tepe Great Game...
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Nikolai Velyaminov (category Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class)
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. During the war, he introduced antiseptic methods during surgery. From 1880–1881, he participated in the Battle of Geok Tepe during...
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Ivan Davidovich Lazarev (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Second Degree)
storming of Kars on the fourth try, victory in the area was certain. In 1879 he was sent to command the expedition that led to the Battle of Geok Tepe (1879)...
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Poghos Bek-Pirumyan (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
Order of St. Anna, 2nd class (1909) Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1916) Gold Sword for Bravery Medal "For the capture of Geok-Tepe" (1881) Order of the...
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