Berdakh
Sign in to savethumb|Berdakh on an Uzbek stamp in 2012 Berdakh, pseudonym of Berdimurat son of Gargabay (Karakalpak: Бердақ; Бердимурат Ғарғабай улы, 1827–1900) was a Karakalpak poet.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Khanate of Khiva
- Place of death
- Karakalpakstan
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Karakalpak
- Image
- Statue of Berdakh in Mo‘ynoq.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1827-01-01
- date of death
- 1900-01-01
- Commons category
- Berdakh
- writing language
- Karakalpak
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thumb|Berdakh on an Uzbek stamp in 2012 Berdakh, pseudonym of Berdimurat son of Gargabay (Karakalpak: Бердақ; Бердимурат Ғарғабай улы, 1827–1900) was a Karakalpak poet.
He was born in Karakalpakstan, in a remote village near modern-day Muynak. His father was a poor fisherman and his mother, who gave him the nickname Berdakh, died when he was 10 years old. His father also died while Berdakh was still a child, and so Berdakh became an orphan. Berdakh studied in a mektep and at the same time he grazed his fellow villagers' cattle. His brother helped him to go to Karakum madrasah, a Muslim religious school, but Berdakh dropped out from the school because of his freethinking poetry.
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