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Turkmenistan
The city began as a military fort and desert oasis. It was almost wiped out by an earthquake in 1948. The name was changed from Ashkhabad in 1992 to reflect the original Turkmen name more accurately.
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The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Turkmen SSR for short, was one of republics of the Soviet Union. It was initially established in 1921 as the Turkmen Oblast of the Turkestan ASSR. In 1925 it was transformed into Turkmen SSR and became a separate republic of the USSR. In 1991, the Turkmen SSR became independent and was renamed Turkmenistan.
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