Andalyp, until 2004 called Ýylanly, and from 2004 to 2022 called Gurbansoltan Eje adyndaky, is a

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and capital of

Akdepe District Akdepe District ( tk, Akdepe etraby, Акдепе этрабы) is a district of Daşoguz Province in Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kaz ...

in Daşoguz Province,

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Etymology

On 9 November 2022 by parliamentary resolution the city was renamed in honor of the poet Nurmuhammet Andalyp. Prior to that, on 6 September 2004 by Parliamentary Resolution 227-II the city was renamed in honor of the mother of

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Saparmurat Niyazov,

Gurbansoltan Eje Gurbansoltan Eje ("Mother of Gurbansoltan"; born 1913 in Gypjak, Turkmenistan; died 6 October 1948 in Ashgabat during the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake) was the mother of Turkmenistan's first post-Soviet president Saparmurat Niyazov ("Türkmenbaşy") ...

. Originally it was named Ilyaly ( Ильялы, the meaning of which is obscure) but by no later than 1992 had been renamed Ýylanly, which in Turkmen means "with snakes". Atanyyazow explains that this city, along with several other locations in Turkmenistan, received that name due to an abundance of snakes in the area.

History

In the

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period Ýylanly was designated as an "

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

" (russian: посёлок городского типа) and administrative center of Ýylanly District. In June 2016 by parliamentary decree Gurbansoltan eje adyndaky was upgraded to the status of "city in a district" ( tk, etrapdaky şäher). The same decree subordinated the villages of Hazarasp, Garamergen, and Depmechi to the city. By parliamentary decree of 9 November 2022, the city was made capital of

. The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'', 3rd edition, published between 1969 and 1986, noted that the city offered a

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plant as well as a folk theater.

Population

References

Populated places in Daşoguz Region {{Turkmenistan-geo-stub