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21-571: In 2000, Ahal Region accounted for 14% of Turkmenistan's population, 11% of the total number of employed, 23% of agricultural production (by value), and 31% of the country's total industrial production. Ahal's agriculture is irrigated by the Karakum Canal , which stretches all the way across the province from east to west, tracking Turkmenistan's southern border. Another water source is the Tejen River , which flows north from Afghanistan in

42-474: A much more northerly location (near Nukus ), and run southwest toward Krasnovodsk . The canal would have used around 25 percent of the Amu-Darya's water. The works were abandoned after the death of Joseph Stalin , the current Karakum Canal route being chosen instead. Reservoirs such as Hanhowuz Reservoir were created to help regulate it. Arkadag Too Many Requests If you report this error to

63-504: Is crushed for extraction of oil and meal at the Ahal Vegetable Oil Enterprise plant near Ovadandepe. It was opened on 17 May 2010 with a design capacity to process 96,000 tons of cotton seed per year, with daily production of 50 tons of cottonseed oil, 10 tons of margarine, 140 tons of cottonseed meal and 70 tons of soybean hulls. On June 28, 2019, a $ 1.7 billion factory for producing gasoline out of natural gas

84-486: Is derived from the word ak [white] and the addition of -al (Vambery, p. 264). Effective January 5, 2018, Ahal Province ( Ahal welaýaty ) is subdivided into 7 districts ( etrap , plural etraplar ): As of 9 November 2022, the province included 9 cities (города or şäherler ), 9 towns (посёлки or şäherçeler ), 82 rural or village councils (сельские советы or geňeşlikler ), and 231 villages (села, сельские населенные пункты or obalar ). As of May 2013 Ruhabat District and

105-636: Is one of the largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its 1,375-kilometre (854 mi) length, and carries 13 cubic kilometres (3.1 cu mi) of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. The canal opened up huge new tracts of land to agriculture, especially to cotton monoculture heavily promoted by

126-491: Is surrounded by Ahal Province, but as the national capital it enjoys status equal to that of a province and is outside Ahal Province's jurisdiction. From antiquity through the early 1800s, the area was populated by Persian-speaking peoples. Nisa , since 2013 located within the city limits of Ashgabat , was likely founded in the third century BCE and was the first capital of the Parthian Empire . The area just north of

147-672: The Kopet Dag mountains forms an oasis due to runoff from the mountains and was thus part of the Silk Road caravan route from roughly 2000 BCE until around 1500 CE. British Lieutenant Colonel H.C. Stuart reported in 1881 that the Ahal branch of the Teke tribe of the Turkmen ethnic group arrived in the area around 1830 and established several semi-nomadic villages ( auls ) between what is now

168-773: The Soviet Union , and supplying Ashgabat with a major source of water. The canal is also a major factor leading to the Aral Sea environmental disaster . The Soviet regime planned to at some time extend the canal to the Caspian Sea . The current Karakum Canal was not the first major attempt to bring the Amu-Darya water to the Karakums. In the early 1950s, construction began on the Main Turkmen Canal (Russian: Главный Туркменский канал ), which would start at

189-647: The Ashgabat city limit off the P-1 highway. Ahal Region cooperates with: [REDACTED] Media related to Ahal Province at Wikimedia Commons 38°30′N 59°0′E  /  38.500°N 59.000°E  / 38.500; 59.000 Karakum Canal The Karakum Canal (Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal, Garagum Canal ; Russian : Каракумский канал , Karakumskiy Kanal , Turkmen : Garagum kanaly , گَرَگوُم كَنَلیٛ , Гарагум каналы ) in Turkmenistan

210-553: The Ashgabat-Dashoguz Automobile Highway near Ovadandepe. It produces mainly rebar and channel iron . The $ 240 million Tejen urea (carbamide) plant, inaugurated on March 18, 2005, has a design capacity of 350,000 tonnes of urea per year. The Baherden Cement Plant, put into operation in 2005, has a design capacity of one million tons of cement per year. In 2019 the Baherden plant reportedly

231-413: The city limit of Ashgabat , Turkmenistan's capital city. The city was named in honor of former President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov , whose official nickname is Arkadag. The capital until 20 December 2022 was Änew (or Anau), a city on the south-eastern outskirts of Ashgabat. One other notable city is Tejen in the south-east near the border with Mary Province . Turkmenistan's largest city, Ashgabat ,

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252-743: The city of Gyzylarbat and village of Gäwers, inclusive. The Ahal area was formally part of Persia but de facto autonomous under Turkoman tribal control until Russian forces defeated the Teke army at the Battle of Geok Tepe in January 1881. Originally named Ashgabat oblasty in Turkmen ( Russian : Ашхабадская область , Cyrillic Turkmen Ашгабат областы ), the future Ahal Province was initially formed on 21 November 1939, abolished on 25 May 1959, and reconstituted on 27 December 1973. In 1977 Ashgabat oblasty

273-681: The city of Abadan (today called Büzmeýin ), until then in Ahal Province, were incorporated into the city of Ashgabat and abolished as separate municipalities. In January 2018, the Babadaýhan District of Ahal Province was re-established, and the Kaka, Tejen, Sarahs Districts were reaffirmed. Baharly's former name, Bäherden, was restored in the same decree, and the Altyn Asyr District was abolished. On 9 November 2022

294-508: The new city of Arkadag was formally incorporated as the new capital city of Ahal and was accorded district status. Ahal produces wheat and cotton. Cotton grown in Ahal is ginned at mills in Akdepe, Gökdepe , Kaka , and Tejen , and spun into cotton yarn at mills in Ashgabat , Gökdepe, and Kaka. Textile complexes are found in Ashgabat, Akdepe (Bäherden), Gökdepe, and Kaka. Cotton seed

315-550: The southeast corner of the province, passing through two large reservoirs south of the city of Tejen . Ahal is known for the Battle of Geok Tepe of 1881, today the site of the imposing Saparmurat Hajji Mosque , and for the Bäherden underground warm lake (in the Kov Ata karst cave), both west of Ashgabat . The administrative centre of Ahal Province is Arkadag , a $ 1.5 billion mostly greenfield development just west of

336-870: Was awarded the Order of Lenin . On 14 December 1992, the People's Council (Turkmen: Maslahaty ) adopted Law No. 783-ХП, “On the Order of Deciding Issues of Administrative-Territorial Structure of Turkmenistan”, and Resolution XM-6. These statutes changed the Russian word oblast' (область), rendered in Turkmen Cyrillic as област, to the Persian loan word welaýat in reference to provinces. The resolution renamed Ashgabat oblasty ( Russian : Ашгабатская область , Turkmen Сyrillic: Ашгабат областы) to Ahal welaýaty. Anau

357-594: Was commissioned in Ovadandepe, Gökdepe District. Built by Rönesans and Kawasaki using technology from Haldor Topsoe , the factory has a design capacity of 600,000 tonnes of gasoline, 12,000 tonnes of Diesel fuel, and 115,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas per year, produced from 1.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas. In 2019, Turkmenistan produced 5.1 million standard square meters (4mm thickness) of sheet glass, all of it in Ahal. A $ 375 million float glass and glass container plant built by Tepe Inşaat of Turkey

378-647: Was constructed in 2010 to power the city of Ashgabat and expanded in 2013 and 2014 to power the Olympic Village. The Ovadandepe Prison is located approximately 30 kilometers NNW of G. Orazow adyndaky oba, the seat of the Ovadandepe Rural Council ( Turkmen : Owadandepe geňeşligi ). The National Space Agency 's ground station for communicating with the TurkmenÄlem-52E satellite is located approximately 6 kilometers north of

399-402: Was designated the capital of Ahal. The capital was moved to the new city of Arkadag on 20 December 2022. Ataniyazov wrote, The meaning of the name is not clear. Khiva historians Munis and Agahi write that the name means "drainage ditch" and it was so named because the Ahal lands were swampy and suitable for rice cultivation (MITT, II, p. 359)...Vambery, on the other hand, writes that the word

420-403: Was opened February 14, 2018, in Ovadandepe north of Ashgabat. It replaced a Soviet-era glass factory located in central Ashgabat. In 2019, the value of Turkmenistan's glass exports as reported by trading partners was $ 9.5 million. A steel smelter , Türkmen Demir Önümleri Döwlet Kärhanasy (English: Turkmen Iron Products State Enterprise ), operating on scrap metal is located at kilometer 22 on

441-510: Was operating at 64% of capacity. The Kelete Cement Plant has a design capacity of one million tons per year, but as of 2019 was producing at 8.1% of that level. The Derweze State Electrical Power Station ( Turkmen : Derweze Döwlet Elektrik Stansiýasy ), a 504.4 megawatt power plant built by Çalık Enerji in 2015, is located near Ovadandepe. The Ahal State Power Station ( Turkmen : Ahal Döwlet Elektrik Stansiýasy ), located about 9 kilometers NE of Anau , with design capacity of 650 megawatts,

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