Английская Википедия:Babadaýhan District
Шаблон:Infobox settlement Babadaýhan District (Шаблон:Lang-tk, Бабадайхан этрабы) is a district of Ahal Province, Turkmenistan.[1][2] From the Soviet period until 1992, the settlement was named in honor of Sergei Kirov. On 26 June 1992, by Parliamentary Resolution No. 729-XII, Kirov District and its capital were renamed Babadaýhan.
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]
Administrative Subdivisions
- Cities (şäherler)
- Towns (şäherçeler)
- N/A
- Village councils (geňeşlikler)
- Ak altyn (Ak altyn)
- Akwekil (Akwekil, Çili)
- Babadaýhan (Babadaýhan)
- Garawekil (Garawekil, Garajaowlak)
- Hasyl (Hasyl)
- Täzeýol (Täzeýol, Götin)
- Ýarygökje (Ýarygökje)
- Zähmet (Zähmet, Alty Garlyýew adyndaky, Mamur)
References
Шаблон:Districts of Turkmenistan Шаблон:Turkmenistan-geo-stub
- ↑ Ахалский Велаят Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Turkmenistan Districts
- ↑ Krasnowolska, Anna: BĀBĀ-YE DEHQĀN, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2009.
- ↑ Krasnowolska, Anna: BĀBĀ-YE DEHQĀN, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2009.
