Halaç is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

and capital of

Halaç District Halaç District ( tk, Halaç etraby) is a district of Lebap Province in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Halaç. History Initially founded in 1925 with the same name, it is part of Kerkin Region of the Turk ...

, Lebap Province,

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

Etymology

Halaç (Halach) is the name of an ancient Oghuz

Turkmen Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

tribe. The meaning is obscure. Early linguists divided the name into two parts, ''gal aç'' ("remain hungry") or ''gal, aç'' ("stay, open"). Vambery considered it to be a corruption of ''gylyç'' ("sword"). The word is written in Persian as "Khalaj" (خلج) and also refers to an Oghuz Turkic ethnic group, the

Khalaj people The Khalaj ( Bactrian χαλασσ ''Xalass''; ps, خلجیان, Khalajyān; fa, خلج‌ها, Xalajhâ) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly live in Iran. Medieval Muslim scholars considered the tribe to be one of the earliest to cross the Am ...

References

Populated places in Lebap Region {{Cities of Turkmenistan