Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov:

I changed the names of the months and days of the week because the old ones were foreign. Now they are Turkmen.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov Contemporary

Renamed months after himself

Public announcement

2002

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