Boyauli

Boyauli was a medieval fortified settlement in the old Ili delta north of Bakanas. Its earthen walls enclosed a roughly rectangular space beside one of the river's former channels. Pottery dates the settlement to the ninth through twelfth centuries. A route along the Ili connected Boyauli with other delta settlements, including Aktam and Karamergen, through a landscape once crossed by irrigation channels and branches of the river.