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Mount Arlan

mountain in Turkmenistan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ777434 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mount Arlan (Turkmen: Arlan dagy) is an 1,880-metre (6,168 ft) peak in the western plains of Turkmenistan in Balkan Province. Mount Arlan stands about 2,000 metres above the shore of the below-sea level Caspian Sea. It is the highest summit of the Uly Balkan range.

The town of Balkanabat, the capital of Balkan Province, lies 25 km to the southwest.

See also

List of ultras of Central Asia

Notes

External links

"Gora Arlan, Turkmenistan". Peakbagger.com.

Editorial summary

“Mount Arlan” enters the record as mountain in Turkmenistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mount, Arlan and mountain can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 75-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mount, Arlan and mountain.
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Why this record matters

“Mount Arlan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mount, Arlan and mountain provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q777434. Authority coordinates are 39.673, 54.543. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mount Arlan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.