Turkmenistan Genealogy

Asia Turkmenistan

Guide to Turkmenistan ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. Turkmenistan is located in Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan. Eastern Turkmenistan for centuries formed part of the Persian province of Khurasan; in medieval times Merv (today known as Mary) was one of the great cities of the Islamic world and an important stop on the Silk Road. Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1924. It achieved independence upon the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

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