Turan (disambiguation)

Turan is a geographic term referring to certain areas and peoples of Central Asia.

Turan may also refer to:

Places

• Turan (Baluchistan), a medieval region in Pakistan
• Turan (satrapy), a satrapy of the Sassanid Empire
• Turan, a town in the Drenovë Municipality of southeastern Albania
• Turan, Azerbaijan, a village in Shaki Rayon
• Turan, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
• Tur'an, a local council in the North District of Israel
• Turan, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
• Turan Range, a mountain range in Russia
• Turan Depression, a desert basin along the Caspian Sea stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan
• Turan, alternative name of Fort Terán, a former settlement in Texas, United States

People

• Turya (Avesta), an ethnic group mentioned in the Avesta after whom the region of Turan is named
• Turan (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
• Turan, alternative name of Toran (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Afghanistan

Arts and entertainment

• Turan ensemble, a Kazakh folk music band
• Turan (Conan), a nation in the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian
• Turan Kingdom, a kingdom in Last Exile, a Japanese animated television series

Businesses

• Turan Air, an Azerbaijani airline
• Turan Corporation, the first company to specialize in Turkish and emerging-market debt
• Turan Information Agency, a news agency based in Baku, Azerbaijan

Other uses

• Turan (mythology), an Etruscan goddess, roughly equivalent to the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus
• Turán (periodical), a Hungarian journal
• 40M Turán I, a Hungarian tank of World War II
• Turan Tovuz, an Azerbaijani football club based in Tovuz
• FC Turan, a Kazakhstani football club
• Turan University, a private university in Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Turan railway station, a commuter rail station in İzmir, Turkey
• Turan Battalion, a Turkic volunteer battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

See also

• Turanism, a political movement
• Curse of Turan, a Hungarian superstition
• Turán graph, a mathematical graph
• Tourane, former name of Đà Nẵng, a port city in Vietnam
• Toran (disambiguation)
• Touran (disambiguation)