Arts
UNESCO World Heritige Site - "Ancient
Merv" Historical and Cultural Park
Museums
and Historical Sites in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Violin Center - Ensemble of the young violinists from
Turkmenistan
Culture
Marjani
Culture Site (Dr. Farzad Marjani)
The
Arvana Dromedary Camel
The Akhal Teke horse
Central
Asian Holidays
The
History of Costume - Dervish, Turkmen Women
Turkmen
Books and Literature
Rukhnama
- a book by Turkmen President Saparmyrat Niyazov
Language
The
UCLA Language Materials Project: Turkmen Profile
Ethnologue
Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule,
by H.B. Paksoy
On the Turkic oral tradition of Central Asia
Introduction
and Chapter 1: Alpamysh and the Turkic Dastan genre
Chapter
2: Attempts to destroy and save Alpamysh, Phase I
Chapter
3: The Alpmaysh Dastan (translation of Divay's 1901 Alpamysh
and Commentary)
Chapter 4: Attempts to destroy and save Alpamysh, Phase II
Selected
Bibliography and Index
Press Release 11/28/00: President
Clinton Hosts Aga Khan on Foreign Policy Panel
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