Turkmenistan tarixi anʼanaviy tarzda miloddan avvalgi 2000-yillar atrofida hind-yevropalik eroniy qabilalarning koʻchib kelishi bilan boshlanadi.

Qoʻshimcha adabiyotlar

  • Turkmaniston tarixi
  • Burnes, Alexander. Travels into Bokhara. Eland, 1835. ISBN 978-1-906011-71-0.  (qayta nashr, Ketlin Hopkirk tahriri ostida, Uilyam Dalrimplning soʻzboshisi va soʻngsoʻzi bilan)
  • Curtis, Glenn E.. Turkmenistan: A Country Study, Library of Congress Country Studies. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1996. OCLC 45380435. 
  • Edgar, Adrienne Lynn (2004), Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
  • Hein, Olivier. Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan. London: Hurst Publishers, 2026. ISBN 9781805265818. 
  • Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. Kodansha International, 1992. ISBN 4-7700-1703-0. , 565 b. «Katta oʻyin» voqealari xronologiyasi onlayn tarzda mavjud.
  • Meyer, Karl. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia. Shareen Brysac, 2001. ISBN 0-349-11366-1. 
  • Turkmaniston elchixonasi