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Bereket, formerly Gazandjyk or ''Kazandzhik'' (), is a city in Balkan Province in western Turkmenistan. Bereket is the administrative centre of the Bereket District. The city is located in an oasis in the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains on the edge of the Karakum Desert. Bereket is an important strategic railway intersection of the Trans-Caspian Railway (Caspian Sea-Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan) and North-South Transnational Railway (Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Persian Gulf. The city has a large locomotive repair depot and a modern railway station. The city is located approximately west of the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat and east of the Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi. The largest cities nearby are Balkanabat to the west, and Serdar to the east. The estimated population of the city is 23,200 as of 2013. == Etymology == The exact origin of the name is unknown. ''Gazanjyk'' is probably derived from a Turkic language word ''gazan'' or ''kazan'' (meaning a large cooking pot used throughout Central Asia, roughly equivalent to a cauldron, boiler) and ''-jyk'' a suffix to denote ''small'' in size. The name can be translated into English as ''small kazan'' or ''small cauldron''. The present-day name of the city ''Bereket'' in the Turkmen language means ''abundance'' or ''prosperity''. The word ''Bereket'' is borrowed from the Persian word ''Barakat'' (برکت) into Turkmen. Persian in turn has borrowed it from Arabic ''Barakah'' (برکة). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bereket」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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