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Turan Plain, extensive lowland in southwestern Kazakhstan and northwestern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It is bounded by the Saryarqa (Kazakh uplands) in the north, the outliers of the Tien Shan, Pamir, and Alay mountains in the east, the Kopet-Dag Range in the south, and the Caspian Sea in the west. It is traversed by the lower courses of the ...
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Coordinates: 41.8333°N 59.9667°E. Turan Depression (area enclosed by orange line) The Turan Depression, Turan Lowland or Turanian Basin is a low-lying desert basin region stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. [1] Geography.
Turan. Turan ( Avestan: Tūiriiānəm; Middle Persian: Tūrān; Persian: توران, romanized : Turân, pronounced [tʰuːˈɾɒːn], "The Land of Tur ") is a historical region in Central Asia. The term is of Iranian origin [1] [2] and may refer to a particular prehistoric human settlement, a historic geographical region, or a culture.
A map of 1843, showing the region. The Turan Depression, Turan Lowland or Turanian Basin is a low-lying desert basin region stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. The lowland region lies to the east of the Caspian Sea and southeast of the Aral Sea in the vast Aral–Caspian Depression. Some of it is above sea level.
Sijavus is a legendary prince of the Parsua and the son-in-law of the mythical Afrasiab, the hero and king of Turan. Due to the treachery of his stepmother, Sudabeh, Sijavus exiles himself to Turan (presumably well before the defeat and death of Afrasiab). There he marries Farangis, Afrasiab's daughter, but the king later orders Sijavus to be ...
Description. Maps. Documents. Gallery. Indicators. Cold Winter Deserts of Turan. This transnational property comprises fourteen component parts found across arid areas of Central Asia’s temperate zone between the Caspian Sea and the Turanian high mountains.
The Turkmen Karakum is approximately 135,000 square miles (350,000 square km) in area, extending some 500 miles (800 km) from west to east and 300 miles (500 km) from north to south.
