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river would be the border between them. This boundary was confirmed and then extended eastwards to the vicinity of
Ashgabat in 1881 following further Russian advances into Turkmen lands, and then to the border with Afghanistan in 1893; various further delimitations of this border occurred in the
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Caspian Sea.
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Ashgabat on the Turkmen side; this area of the border, plus the western section, is roughly paralleled by highways. The Turkmen section of the
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Turkmen village of Chat. The border then continues overland eastwards/north-eastwards across the
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686:Kazakhstan
598:Azerbaijan
404:References
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387:See also
309:Esenguly
304:Ashgabat
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218:Gomishan
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91:tripoint
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165:History
159:Mashhad
155:Bojnurd
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335:Shemli
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321:Chat
262:Giru
243:Shuy
211:Iran
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