Hojambaz or Hodzhambas 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

Hojambaz District Hojambaz District is a district of Lebap Province in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Hojambaz. On 9 November 2022, Döwletli District was dissolved and its territories were divided, some including the to ...

Lebap Province Lebap Region ( tk, Lebap welaýaty/Лебап велаяты from the Persian ''Lab-e āb'') is one of the regions of Turkmenistan. It is in the northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya. Its capital is T ...

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

The name of the city is derived from

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

word ''"Khâjeh-Jangbâz"'' ("خواجه‌جنگباز"), consisting of two parts, ''"Khâjeh"'' ("خواجه") being a commonly used honorific title, and ''"Jangbâz"'' ("جنگباز"), meaning "warrior". The name was adopted into Turkmen as ''"Hoja-Jeňbaz"''. The name then underwent phonetic modifications, such as a change in vowel in order to adhere to

Vowel harmony In phonology, vowel harmony is an Assimilation (linguistics), assimilatory process in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – have to be members of the same natural class (thus "in harmony"). Vowel harmony is t ...

rules of Turkmen, becoming ''"Hoja-Jaňbaz"'', and reduction of the two subsequent ''"ja"'' syllables into one, thus becoming ''"Hojaňbaz"'', ultimately evolving to its modern form ''"Hojambaz"''. On 19th-century Russian maps of the area, the name was annotated as Ходжа-Джамбас (Hodzha-Dzhambas) and Ходжа-Джумбус (Khodja-Dzhumbus), and in the 1926 documents demarcating the

Turkmen SSR 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 ...

as Ходжа-Джанбаз (Khodzha-Dzhanbas). Yakup Astanakulow TOP TKM

Economy

The city's economy is dominated by employment at the

China National Petroleum Company The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) () is a major national oil and gas corporation of China and one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world. Its headquarters are in Dongcheng District, Beijing. CNPC was ranked fourth ...

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

works in the Bagtyýarlyk gas field. The surrounding

produces cotton, which is ginned in the city.Location of ''Hojambaz Pagta Arassalaýjy Fabrigi'' (Hojambaz Cotton Gin) on OpenStreetMap
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References

Populated places in Lebap Region {{Cities of Turkmenistan