Nearly 80 % of the republic lies within the Turan Depression, which slopes from south to north and from east to west.

Accordingly, the phrase Turan Plain or Turan Depression is a geographical term referring to a part of Central Asia.

* Turan Depression, a region around the Caspian Sea

Three of the largest cities in the Turan Depression are: Daşoguz in Turkmenistan, Nukus in Uzbekistan, and Urganch, also in Uzbekistan.

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Most of the Soviet Union consisted of three plains ( East European Plain, West Siberian Plain, and Turan Lowland ), two plateaus ( Central Siberian Plateau and Kazakh Upland ), and a series of mountainous areas, concentrated for the most part in the extreme northeast or extending intermittently along the southern border.

In European discourse, the words Turan and Turanian designate a certain mentality, i. e. the nomadic in contrast to the urbanized agricultural civilizations.

* Turanian National Alliance or Alliance of Turanian People (" Turan Minzoku Domei "), founded in Japan in 1921

In 1914, in the context of World War I, a Yenl Turan ( New Turanian Society ) was formed in Istanbul and supported by both Bolsheviks and the German Empire.

One appears to be divinities of an indigenous nature: Catha and Usil, the sun ; Tivr, the moon ; Selvans, a civil god ; Turan, the goddess of love ; Laran, the god of war ; Leinth, the goddess of death ; Maris ; Thalna ; Turms ; and the ever-popular Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

Turandot is a Persian word and name meaning " the daughter of Turan ", Turan being a region of Central Asia which used to be part of the Persian Empire.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan, agreed, writing " The only criterion for an award like this is the work ".

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times stated that " Starting with Tom Hanks, who brings an invaluable heft and believability to Woody, Toy Story is one of the best voiced animated features in memory, with all the actors ... making their presences strongly felt.

One appears to be lesser divinities of an indigenous origin: Catha and Usil, the sun, Tivr, the moon, Selvans, a civil god, Turan, the goddess of love, Laran, the god of war, Leinth, the goddess of death, Maris, Thalna, Turms and the god Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

Turan and Atunis ( the Etruscan Venus and Adonis myth ) also appear, as another couple whose love is destroyed by the savagery of the hunt.

Similar to the ancient homeland of Zoroaster, the precise geography and location of Turan is unknown.

According to Iranian nationalist poet Mohammad Taghi Bahar, the name Turan derives from the Avestan " Tau-Raodan ", which means " Further on the River ", where the " River " is to be considered Amu Darya.

Turan is also a common name in the Middle East, and as family surnames in some countries including Bahrain, Iran, Bosnia and Turkey.

Turanshah ( Shah of Turan ) is also the name of the brother of Saladin.

It has been referenced in many Turkic and Persian sagas and is an integral part of Turan.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

" Kenneth Turan, of the LA Times, was a little more forgiving, saying, " If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, " The Truman Show is emotionally involving without losing the ability to raise sharp satiric questions as well as get numerous laughs.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times noted that the film " was really full of easy humor, an impeccable sense of milieu that is the result of knowing the culture intimately enough to poke fun at it while understanding its underlying integrity.

Fifty years later, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times was much more positive, saying East of Eden is " not only one of Kazan's richest films and Dean's first significant role, it is also arguably the actor's best performance.

" Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times complained that the film " should be fun but isn't ... worst of all perhaps is its smug air of pleasure at how clever it thinks it's being.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, " But the ringmaster of this circus, the man without whom nothing would be possible, is director De Bont, who now must be considered Hollywood's top action specialist.

Afrasiab ( afrāsiyāb ; ; ; Pahlavi: Frāsiyāv, Frāsiyāk, and Freangrāsyāk ) is the name of the mythical king and hero of Turan.

" Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said " Toy Story 2 may not have the most original title, but everything else about it is, well, mint in the box.

The Kara Kum desert lies at the southern portion of the Turan Lowlands.

The Caspian tiger, also known as the Turan tiger, Hyrcanian tiger, is an Critical endangered or extinct tiger subspecies that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and used to inhabit the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and east through Central Asia into the Takla Makan desert of Xinjiang, China.

In geology, the plateau region of Iran primarily formed of the accretionary Gondwanan terranes between the Turan platform to the north and the Main Zagros Thrust, the suture zone between the northward moving Arabian plate and the Eurasian continent, is called the Iranian plateau.

Turan suggested that American Beauty may have benefited from Mendes ' inexperience, as his " anything's possible daring " made him attempt beats that more seasoned directors might have avoided.

According to Persian tradition, as reported by 11th-century ethnographer Mahmud of Kashgar and various other traditional Islamic scholars and historians, the name " Turk " stems from Tur, one of the sons of Japheth ( see Turan ).

Arash, the archer who sacrificed his body by giving all his strength to the arrow that demarcated Iran and Turan, shot his arrow from Mount Damāvand.

The Turanic Raiders from the Real-time strategy game Homeworld are a reference to the Turan.

The name Turan according to Iranian myths derives from the homeland of Turaj.

By noon on that day, the Frankish army had reached a spring at the village of Turan some six miles ( 10 km ) from Sephoria.

When Saladin arrived from the taking of Tiberias, and after the Frankish army left Turan, the Muslims began their attack in earnest.

Speculations on Tyrrhenian origin connect the Etruscan theonym Turan for Venus ( perhaps from an epitheton "* Lady ", paired with Atunis "* Lord ") and the ethnonym of the Tyrrhenians itself.

The face and ears of the 27-year old patient Turan Çolak from Izmir were burnt as he fell into an oven when he was three and half years old.

Her name is derived from the pre-Hellenic word: “ Turannos ” ( absolute ruler ), so Turan can be viewed as “ Mistress ".

Known as the 41M Turan II, this vehicle otherwise remained virtually unchanged from the original vehicle.

Turkey doubled the lead minutes later when Arda Turan scored from 30 yards out.

Turan ( Hungarian: Turán ) derives from the Persian توران ‎ and refers to the steppes of Central Asia, land of the Tur.

The name is derived from Turan, an ancient Persian name for the land to the East of Iran where many Turkic peoples live, and Turan, the goal of an all Turks uniting state.

" Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times praised the performances of Caine, Duvall and Osment but said " Almost all the film's peripheral characters, from Walter's mother and her boyfriend to a family of grasping relatives, are clichéd in an overly broad, unfunny way that is unpleasant in itself and a marked contrast to the more nuanced performances of the trio of leads.

* Yǔn, tribal polity from Turan