The name of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two

components: the ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or
"country". The name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men,
meaning "almost Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic
mythological system.[27] However, some scholars argue the suffix is an intensifier,
changing the meaning of Türkmen to "pure Turks" or "the Turkish Turks."[28]

Muslim chroniclers like Ibn Kathir suggested that the etymology of Turkmenistan
came from the words Türk and Iman (Arabic: ‫إيمان‬, "faith, belief") in reference to a
massive conversion to Islam of two hundred thousand households in the year 971.[29]

Turkmenistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union after the independence
referendum in 1991. As a result, the constitutional law was adopted on 27 October
of that year and Article 1 established the new name of the state: Turkmenistan
(Türkmenistan / Түркменистан).[30]

A common name for the Turkmen SSR was Turkmenia (Russian: Туркмения, romanization:
Turkmeniya), used in some reports of the country's independence.[31]The name of
Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the
ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country". The
name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost
Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological
system.[27] However, some scholars argue the suffix is an intensifier, changing the
meaning of Türkmen to "pure Turks" or "the Turkish Turks."[28]

Muslim chroniclers like Ibn Kathir suggested that the etymology of Turkmenistan
came from the words Türk and Iman (Arabic: ‫إيمان‬, "faith, belief") in reference to a
massive conversion to Islam of two hundred thousand households in the year 971.[29]

Turkmenistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union after the independence
referendum in 1991. As a result, the constitutional law was adopted on 27 October
of that year and Article 1 established the new name of the state: Turkmenistan
(Türkmenistan / Түркменистан).[30]

A common name for the Turkmen SSR was Turkmenia (Russian: Туркмения, romanization:
Turkmeniya), used in some reports of the country's independence.[31]The name of
Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the
ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country". The
name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost
Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological
system.[27] However, some scholars argue the suffix is an intensifier, changing the
meaning of Türkmen to "pure Turks" or "the Turkish Turks."[28]

Muslim chroniclers like Ibn Kathir suggested that the etymology of Turkmenistan
came from the words Türk and Iman (Arabic: ‫إيمان‬, "faith, belief") in reference to a
massive conversion to Islam of two hundred thousand households in the year 971.[29]

Turkmenistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union after the independence
referendum in 1991. As a result, the constitutional law was adopted on 27 October
of that year and Article 1 established the new name of the state: Turkmenistan
(Türkmenistan / Түркменистан).[30]

A common name for the Turkmen SSR was Turkmenia (Russian: Туркмения, romanization:
Turkmeniya), used in some reports of the country's independence.[31]