Andalyp (Arabic Alphabet: عاندالیٛپ), 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 (, Акдепе этрабы) is a district of Daşoguz Province in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Akdepe. On 9 November 2022 by decree of the Turkmen parliament Gurbansoltan Eje Distric ...

Daşoguz Province Daşoguz (also Dashoguz, Dasoguz; roughly "stone spring" in Turkmen), formerly known as Tashauz (until 1992; ) and Dashkhovuz (1992–1999; ), is a large city in northern Turkmenistan and the capital of Daşoguz Province. The Uzbekistan border ...

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Etymology

On 9 November 2022 by parliamentary resolution the city was renamed in honor of the poet Nurmuhammet Andalyp (نورمحمد عندلیب). 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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, Gurbansoltan Eje. 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 "

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" () 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" (). 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