Galyat (Urdu: گلیات) region, or hill tract, (also written Galliat and Galiyat)[1] is a narrow strip or area roughly 50–80 km north-east of Islamabad, Pakistan, extending on both sides of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border, between Abbottabad and Murree.[2] The word itself is derived from the plural of the Urdu word gali, which means an alley between two mountains on both sides of which there are valleys and it is not the highest point in the range. Many of the towns in the area have the word gali as part of their names, and are popular tourist resorts.[3] Being on linguistic and geographical continuum this area has challenged social scientists in terms of anomalous classification.
- ^ "Visit Galiyat". Archived from the original on 20 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ Hazara District Gazetteer 1883-84, Lahore: Govt of the Punjab, 1884, p.3
- ^ "Tourism in Abbottabad District". Archived from the original on January 21, 2009.