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"This article is about Florence's Secondary Nation located in South America, that contains territory of the modern-day countries of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil. For the historical Jewish Turkic state located near the, see ."

The Democratic Turks ' Republic of Akhzaria, commonly known as Akhzaria or only the Democratic Turks' Republic (DTR); Akhzarian: Ahzarya ; : Acquizarão ; : Achzarjë  is an independent sovereign state located in South America. It has a population of approximately 55.8 million people, and it's the second most populous South American country after Brazil and it is the 25th most populous country in the world between South Africa and Tanzania. Also, its density is 35 people per km sq making it the 189th most dense country in the world between Mozambique and.

Its capital city is which means "city" in, which also gives its name to the Saudi Arabian city of  which is a sacred place for the. Demonym of the city of Medine is Medini, which comes from "medenî" that means "civilizated". That word comes from the Arabic word that means "from the city". The country's largest city is ; Karakaş in Akhzarian meaning "black eyebrow" however it is obvious that the name of Caracas doesn't come from this word. The demonym for Caracas is Caracassan, which doesn't have a specific meaning or Caracasly; Karakaşlı in Akhzarian which has "-lı" suffix that means "with" or "from" in Akhzarian so Karakaşlı means both "from Caracas" and "with black eyebrow" however "black eyebrow" is commonly written with a space, as "kara kaş". Its official languages are Akhzarian, Portuguese and Dutch (especially in ) however but some minority languages have a significant number of speakers in Lygossia Nogai, eg. Spanish, French due to the colonial times and Turkish, Greek and Albanian due to the Ottoman impact.

Akhzaria shares land borders with Colombia to the west and Brazil to the south.

Akhzaria is a member of the United Nations, however it isn't a member of (only South American state that has never been a member of USAN, and one of the two South American states that aren't a member of USAN, with Colombia), isn't a member of the  even it has a significant minority of Muslims. Akhzaria is also an observer state of the.

Etymology
Name of Akhzaria obviously comes from the Ottoman word for "green", "ahzar". However, current word for "green" in Akhzarian is yâşıl, which comes from Proto-Turkic word "yaş" that means "wet" and "-ıl" suffix. Today, also "yaz" is the word for "wet" and "yâşılgı" for "plant".

However, Ottomans only said "green" to region which they stepped first on South America and said "arsayuşk" (derived from "arsa" meaning "site" and "huşk" meaning "dry") to northern Akhzaria, especially to Medine, as the time passed that name became the name of whole Ottoman colonies on South America.