Turan (disambiguation)

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

Turan may also refer to:

People

• Turan (name), a name of differing origins, including a list of people named Turan

Places

• Turan (Baluchistan), a region of north western of Pakistan
• Turan, Azerbaijan, a village in Shaki Rayon
• Tur'an, a local council in the North District of Israel
• Turan, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
• Turan Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Turan Town Under District Jurisdiction in Piy-Khemsky District of the Tuva Republic, Russia is incorporated as
• Turan (Baluchistan), a medieval region in east-central Baluchistan
• Turan railway station, a commuter rail station in İzmir, Turkey
• Turan Depression, a desert basin along the Caspian Sea stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan
• Turan, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
• Fort Turan, alternative name of Fort Terán, a former settlement in Texas, United States
• Turan (satrapy), a satrapy of the Sassanid Empire
• Turan, a town in the Drenovë Municipality of southeastern Albania
• Turan Range, a mountain range in Russia

Fictional places

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

Other

• Turan Corporation, the first company to specialize in Turkish and emerging-market debt.
• Turan (mythology), Etruscan goddess, roughly equivalent of Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus
• Turán (periodical), a Hungarian journal
• Turan Air, an Azerbaijani airline
• Turan ensemble, a Kazakh folk music band
• Turan Information Agency, a news agency based in Baku, Azerbaijan
• 40M Turán I, a Hungarian tank of World War II
• Turan University, a private university in Almaty, Kazakhstan

See also

• Tourane, former name of Đà Nẵng, a port city in Vietnam
• Turanism, a political movement
• Turandot, an opera by Puccini
• Torana, a sacred or honorific gateway in Buddhist architecture
• Toran (Pashtun tribe), a tribe of Afghanistan
• Turan-e Fars, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
• Turan Tovuz PFC, an Azerbaijani football club based in Tovuz
• Turán graph, a mathematical graph
• Curse of Turan, a Hungarian superstition