Yaylak
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Yaylak is a summer highland pasture associated with transhumance pastoralism in several Central and West Asian Turkic communities. There are different variants of yaylak pastoralism forms of alpine tr
A contemporary yayla at Aladaglar, Turkey
Another modern yayla at Song Kol Lake, Kyrgyzstan
Yayla (resort)
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Yayla is a Turkic name given to settlements or areas which are suitable for summer mountain resorts and summer highland transhumance. The term is also cognate with the related Turkic term yaylak. Sinc
Yaylak
…Yaylak (Turkish: yaylak or yayla; Azerbaijani: yaylaq; Azerbaijani: یایلاق; Kazakh: жайлау; Kyrgyz: жайлоо; Persian: ییلاق; Russian: яйлаг) is a summer highland pasture associated with…
Pokut Yayla, Rize, Turkey
A Yörük yayla depiction from the Taurus Mountains, 1879
Ayder Yayla, Black Sea Region, Turkey