See also:

• ASKABAD, or ASKHABAD

ASKABAD, or ASKHABAD  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian central See also:

• ASIA

Asia, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Transcaspian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, 345 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail S.E. of See also:

• KRASNOVODSK

Krasnovodsk and 594 from See also:

• SAMARKAND

Samarkand, situated in a small See also:

• OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

oasis at the N. See also:

• FOOT

foot of the Kopet-dagh range . It has a public See also:

• LIB

lib,rary and a technical railway school; also See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton-cleaning See also:

• WORKS

works, tanneries, See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-works, and a See also:

• MINERAL

mineral-See also:

• WATER

water factory . The See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade is valued at £250,000 a See also:

• YEAR

year . The See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, 2500 in 1881, when the Russians seized it, was 19,428 in 1897, one-third Persians, many of them belonging to the Babi See also:

• SECT

sect .