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)
  • Turian (disambiguation)