Jebel (russian: Джебел, russian: Dzhebel,
Cyrillic
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tk, Җебел) is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in
Balkan Province
Balkan Region ( tk, Balkan welaýaty, Балкан велаяты) is the westernmost of the five regions of Turkmenistan. Clockwise from north it borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (north); two provinces of Turkmenistan (east), Iran (south), an ...
,
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the so ...
, that is subordinate to the city of
Balkanabat.
It is the nearest municipality of any size to the Mollagara Sanitorium, which is four kilometers distant.
Etymology
Jebel means "mountain" in Arabic, and refers in this case to a nearby peak in the
Balkhan Range.
Economy
Jebel serves as a support and logistics center for oil extraction operations in Balkan Province, particularly on the
Cheleken Peninsula. It is also a center for mining and milling of table salt. In 2008 a kaolin plant was opened in Jebel. In 2011 Turkish
Polimeks built Turkmenistan's largest cement plant in Jebel, capable of producing one million tons of cement per year. In 2014 a plant was opened for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt.
Archeological site
Four kilometers east of the Jebel train station in the
Greater Balkhan range is the
Jebel cave, in which A.P. Okladnikov found in 1949-1950 a multilayer archeological site dating from the
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymousl ...
through the
Neolithic
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and Early
Bronze
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ages.
[''Окладников А. П.'' Пещера Джебел — памятник древней культуры прикаспийских племен Туркмении, Тр. ЮТАКЭ, т. 7, Аш., 1956.]
Transportation
Jebel is the site of a municipal airport. The airport is scheduled for renovation and upgrading.
The airport does not offer scheduled passenger service.
Jebel is located at the junction of the
M37 highway and the P-17 highway, which leads to the
Cheleken Peninsula.
The rail line between
Türkmenbaşy and
Ashgabat
Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشقآباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...
passes through Jebel, which has its own rail station.
Population
References
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Balkan Region
Turkmenistan