Babadaýhan District
Babadaýhan District is a district of Ahal Province in Turkmenistan.
The name Babadaýhan is the Turkmenized form of the Persian name Bābā-Dihqān, 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.
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.
