Yayla is the Turkish word for
highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...
, cognate with
yaylak
Yaylak ( or ; ; ; ; ; ; ) 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 transhumance, some of whi ...
. It may refer to:
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Yayla (resort)
Yayla is a Turkic peoples, Turkic name given to settlements or areas which are suitable for mountain resort, summer mountain resorts and Alpine transhumance, summer highland transhumance. The term is also cognate with the related Turkic term yay ...
, the name given to tribal
yaylaks and summer
mountain resorts in Turkey.
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Yaylak
Yaylak ( or ; ; ; ; ; ; ) 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 transhumance, some of whi ...
, Turkic summer highland pastures, equivalent for the alpine pasture and the associated
alpine transhumance
Alpine transhumance is transhumance as practiced in the Alps, that is, a seasonal droving of grazing livestock between the valleys in winter and the high mountain pastures in summer (German ' from the term for "seasonal mountain pasture", '). ...
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Yayla Mountains is the Turkish name for the Crimean Mountains
* since this is a common root word in Turkish enriched with suffixes to make other words. It and its derivatives are also used as place names, person names, and brand names.
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