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Babadaýhan District
Babadaýhan etraby
Бабадайхан этрабы
Map
Coordinates: 37°41′31″N 60°23′36″E / 37.69194°N 60.39333°E / 37.69194; 60.39333
Country Turkmenistan
ProvinceAhal Province
CapitalBabadaýhan
Time zoneUTC+5 (+5)

Babadaýhan District (Template:Lang-tk, Бабадайхан этрабы) is a district of Ahal Province in Turkmenistan.[1][2]

The name Babadaýhan is the Turkmenized form of the Persian name Bābā-Dihqān (بابادهقان), which eans “Forefather Farmer”, a mythological and ritual character whose cult has been reported in agrarian communities of mountainous and lowland Tajikistan, North Afghanistan and adjacent rural areas of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.[3]

As an Iranian mythological figure, Bābā-ye Dehqān is believed to be the first man and the first farmer who taught his profession to mankind through a chain of his successors.[4]

References

  1. ^ Ахалский Велаят Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Turkmenistan Districts
  3. ^ Krasnowolska, Anna: BĀBĀ-YE DEHQĀN, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2009.
  4. ^ Krasnowolska, Anna: BĀBĀ-YE DEHQĀN, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2009.