Turkmenbashy
Turkmenbashy is a port in the Caspian Sea basin, located on the bay of the same name. The name of the town and bay was changed in 1993 in honour of Saparmurat Niyazov, the long-time president of Turkmenistan, who began to call himself the “leader of the Turkmen”, i.e. Türkmenbaşy. It was previously known as Krasnovodsk, after the “red waters” of the Caspian Sea. This was a direct translation of the former local name Kyzyl-Su.
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