Halaç is a

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

and capital of Halaç District,

Lebap Province Lebap Region () is one of the regions of Turkmenistan. It is in the northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya. Its administrative centre is Türkmenabat (formerly named Çärjew). It has an area of 93,727 s ...

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

Etymology

Halaç (Halach) is the name of an ancient Oghuz Turkmen 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 (; ) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly reside in Iran. In Iran they still speak the Khalaj language, although most of them are Persianized. ''Xalaj'').; excerpts from "The Turkish Dialect of the Khalaj", Bulletin of the School o ...

References

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