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Berdakh
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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.

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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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