Official Name: | Oguzhan şäherçesi |
Other Name: | Gulanly |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Turkmenistan#Asia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Turkmenistan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Turkmenistan |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Mary Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Murgap District |
Unit Pref: | metric |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Utc Offset: | +5 |
Coordinates: | 37.3167°N 66°W |
Oguzhan (formerly Gulanly) is a town in Murgap District, Mary Region, Turkmenistan.[1] Prior to 9 November 2022, it was the capital of Oguzhan District, which was abolished by parliamentary decree.[2] It is the site of a fertilizer depot and a cotton yard.[3] [4]
Oguzhan is the Turkmen spelling of Oghuz Khagan, the mythical progenitor of the Turkic nations, and the town was renamed in his honor. Atanyyazow is silent on the significance or origin of the name Gulanly,[5] which literally means "with wild asses" (gulan "wild ass" + -ly "with").[6]
Oguzhan features a station of the same name on a branch of the Trans-Caspian Railway built between 1992 and 1996 that leads from Parahat junction to Sarahs and onward to Iran.[7] The town is also served by the P-9 highway.