Yaylak
Videos
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
Kishlak
Videos
Kishlak or qishlaq, or qıştaq qıstaw is a rural settlement of semi-nomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Azerbaijan. The meaning of the term is "wintering place" in Turkic languages.
Yaylak
…commonly used in Soviet anthropology. The converse term is gishlag (from Turkic kyshlag), a winter pasture. The word gave rise to the usage of the term kishlak for rural settlements in Central Asia. Yaylak is a morphological derivation from the Old Turkic root yay 'summer' and the denominal suffix -laγ (or…
A kishlak near Samarkand of early 1900s
Kishlak in Djizak region of Uzbekistan
Mountain village in Tajikistan
Sap village in Navoi region of Uzbekistan