Ashgabat — named Poltoratsk between 1919 and 1927, is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It is situated between the Kopet Dag mountain range in Central Asia; the city was founded in 1881, made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. Much of the city was destroyed by the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake but has since seen extensively rebuilt under the rule of Saparmurat Niyazov’s “White City” urban renewal project, resulting in monumental projects sheathed in costly white marble; the Soviet-era Karakum Canal runs through the city, carrying waters from the Amu Darya from east to west. Ashgabat is called Aşgabat in Turkmen, in Russian from 1925 to 1991, Ešq-ābād in Persian. Before 1991, the city was spelled Ashkhabad in English, a transliteration of the Russian form, it has been variously spelled Ashkhabat and Ashgabad. From 1919 until 1927, the city was renamed Poltoratsk after a local revolutionary, Pavel Gerasimovich Poltoratskiy. Although the name means "city of love" or "city of devotion" in modern Persian, the name might be modified through folk etymology.

Turkmen historian Ovez Gundogdiyev believes that the name goes back to the Parthian era, 3rd century BC, deriving from the name of the founder of the Parthian Empire, Arsaces I of Parthia, in Persian Ashk-Abad. Ashgabat is a young city, having been founded in 1881 as a fortification and named after the nearby settlement of Askhabad. Located not far from the site of Nisa, the ancient capital of the Parthian Empire, it grew on the ruins of the Silk Road city of Konjikala, first mentioned as a wine-producing village in the 2nd century BC and leveled by an earthquake in the 1st century BC. Konjikala was rebuilt because of its advantageous location on the Silk Road and it flourished until its destruction by Mongols in the 13th century. After that it survived as a small village. A part of Persia until the Battle of Geok Tepe, Askhabad was ceded to the Russian Empire under the terms of the Akhal Treaty. Russia developed the area as it was close to the border of British-influenced Persia, the population grew from 2,500 in 1881 to 19,428 in 1897.

It was regarded as a pleasant town with European style buildings and hotels. In 1908, the first Bahá'í House of Worship was built in Askhabat, it was badly damaged in the 1948 earthquake and demolished in 1963. The community of the Bahá'í Faith in Turkmenistan was based in Ashgabat. Soviet rule was established in Ashgabat in December 1917. However, in July 1918, a coalition of Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, Tsarist former officers of the Imperial Russian Army revolted against the Bolshevik rule emanating from Tashkent and established the Ashkhabad Executive Committee. After receiving some support from General Malleson, the British withdrew in April 1919 and the Tashkent Soviet resumed control of the city. In 1919, the city was renamed Poltoratsk, after Pavel Poltoratskiy, the Chairman of the Soviet of National Economy of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; when the Turkmen SSR was established in 1924, Poltoratsk became its capital. The original name was restored in 1927. From this period onward, the city experienced rapid growth and industrialisation, although disrupted by a major earthquake on October 6, 1948.

An estimated 7.3 on the Richter scale, the earthquake killed 110–176,000, although the official number announced by Soviet news was only 40,000. In July 2003, street names in Ashgabat were replaced by serial numbers except for nine major highways, some named after Saparmurat Niyazov, his father, his mother; the Presidential Palace Square was designated 2000 to symbolize the beginning of the 21st century. The rest of the streets were assigned smaller four-digit numerical names. Following Niyazov's death in 2006, Soviet-era street names were restored, though in the years since, many of them have been replaced with names honoring Turkmen scholars, military heroes, figures from art and culture. In 2013, the city was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's highest concentration of white marble buildings. Ashgabat milestones: 1882–1918 – administrative center of Russia's Transcaspian Region 1918–1925 – administrative center of the Turkmen Oblast in the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic since February 1925 – capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic since October 1991 – capital of independent Turkmenistan See Map of the Boroughs of Ashgabat As of January 5, 2018, Ashgabat includes four boroughs: Bagtyýarlyk etraby Berkararlyk etraby Büzmeýin etraby Köpetdag etraby This is a reduction from the previous number of boroughs.

Arçabil and Çandybil boroughs were merged on February 4, 2015, the new etrap, named Arçabil, was in turn renamed Büzmeýin in January 2018. At that time the Abadan borough of Ashgabat, created in 2013 by annexing the town of Abadan and surrounding villages to Abadan's south, was abolished and its territory was merged into the newly renamed Büzmeýin borough; the former Ruhabat borough was abolished at the same time and its territory absorbed by Bagtyýarlyk borough. Acco

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