Jebel, Turkmenistan

Jebel (Russian: Джебел, romanized Russian: Dzhebel, Cyrillic Turkmen: Җебел) is a town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan, that is subordinate to the city of Balkanabat.^[1] It is the nearest municipality to the Mollagara Sanitorium, which is four kilometers distant.^[2][3]

Jebel Җебел Russian Джебел (Dzhebel)
Town
Jebel Location in Turkmenistan
Coordinates: 39°37′51″N 54°14′14″E
Country	Turkmenistan
Province	Balkan Province
City	City of Balkanabat
Time zone	UTC+5

Etymology

Jebel means "mountain" in Arabic, and refers in this case to a nearby peak in the Balkhan Range.^[4]

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.^[5] In 2011 Turkish Polimeks built Turkmenistan's largest cement plant in Jebel, capable of producing one million tons of cement per year.^[6][7] In 2014 a plant was opened for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt.^[8]

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 through the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages.^[9]

Transportation

The Balkanabat International Airport is located a few kilometers away from Jebel. ^[10][11] The airport accepts domestic and international flights.^[12][13]

Jebel is located at the junction of the M37 highway and the P-17 highway, which leads to the Cheleken Peninsula.^[14]

The rail line between Türkmenbaşy and Ashgabat passes through Jebel, which has its own rail station.

Population

1959[15]	1970[16]	1979[17]	1989[18]
4389	6353	7978	7697