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TURKMENISTAN ARTS AND CULTURE LINKS

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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