Turkmenistan ottoman empire. The city later became merv. Turks in turkmenistan are either turkish people who live in turkmenistan even though having been born outside turkmenistan or are turkmenistan born but have turkish roots. The ottoman empire was an imperial state that was founded in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several turkish tribes. The empire disintegrated after world war i.
Some of these were later absorbed into the ottoman empire while others were gra. At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states. By turkish roots this could mean roots linking back to turkey or in neighbouring countries once part of the ottoman empire that still have a population whose language is turkish or who claims a turkish identity or cultural heritage. Turkmenistans recorded history starts around 500 bc with its conquest by the achaemenid empire.
In 330 bc alexander the great defeated the achaemenids. The empire then grew to include many areas in what is now present day europe. Alexander established a city on the murgab river in turkmenistan which he named alexandria.
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