#turkmenistan

[rorvk]

several drawings I did of different religious/traditional head coverings in west and Central Asia !!!

[victusinveritas]

A golden ram and a stone lion, found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Gonur Depe (dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE) in Turkmenistan. The finger in the background shows how small these figures are, demonstrating the extraordinary skill of the crafter.

The archaeological site of Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan.

[minicheck]

Amazing tiny sculptures from Turkmenistan, dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE : golden ram and stone lion, found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Gonur Depe.

Via 

[turk1cculture]

TURKIC TRADITIONAL CLOTHES VS OTOYOMEGATARİ

[sovietpostcards]

Kolkhoz farmer with a melon he grew. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (Turkmenia, 1965).

[archaeoart]

Fortress ruins at Abdullakhan-Kala, Merv in Turkmenistan, circa 1890.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔑𝔬𝔨𝔥𝔲𝔯 𝔠𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔶. 𝔏𝔬𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔳𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔑𝔬𝔨𝔥𝔲𝔯 (𝔗𝔲𝔯𝔨𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔫)

[folkfashion]

Turkmen bride, Turkmenistan, by Davinci Visual Maker

[spectrometrie]

[haveyoueatenthis]

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Turkmenistan, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectul in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Akhal-Teke horse is considered one of the most beautiful horses, thanks to its almost metallic coat.

The Akhal-Teke is a Turkmen horse breed. They have a reputation for speed, endurance, intelligence, and distinctive metallic sheen.

The shiny coat of the breed led to their nickname, "Golden Horses."

These horses are adapted to severe climatic conditions and are thought to be one of the oldest existing horse breeds.

[bobemajses]

Turkmens and Persian Jews at a gathering in Tagtabazar, southeastern Turkmenistan, 1911

[deadpresidents]

I've had these books sitting around for a couple of years now, but I finally picked up Erika Fatland's Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) yesterday and I am burning through it and didn't even want to put it down long enough to post this. It's a good bet that any book that starts with a chapter about endlessly fascinating Turkmenistan and its crazy post-Soviet dictators -- the late, utterly ridiculous "Turkmenbashi" and the horse-obsessed dentist now in power -- is going to immediately capture my attention. The bizarre personality cults built around the dictators of Turkmenistan might actually be the one thing to shame Donald Trump because he'd be so envious of their audacity.

While I don't want my journey with Sovietistan to end as quickly as it's going to, I'm glad I also have Erika Fatland's book The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage (BOOK | KINDLE) ready to immediately dive into afterwards. I'm also going to need to get her newest book High: A Journey Across the Himalaya Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China (BOOK | KINDLE) to follow The Border. The author, Erika Fatland, is from Norway and speaks eight languages, so she's not completely lost in these wildly different and remote former Soviet satellite republics and her writing is vivid and funny (all three books are translated into English by Kari Dickson, so cheers to her, as well). I don't read a ton of books that fall in the genre of travel writing, but I might have to if there are more like this!

[turk1cculture]

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[dailystreetsnapshots]

Mary, Turkmenistan