Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
The name, Uzbekistan, literally means "Home of the Free", taken from an amalgamation of "uz" (Turkic: "self"), "bek" (Turkic: "master", "bey in modern Turkish"), and "-stan" (Persian: "land of"). However, the official name of the republic was the "Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic" as defined by its 1937 and 1978 Constitutions.