Barçınlı

Barçınlı denotes a district of uplands and villages around the Emir Mountains in western Anatolia. Ottoman records use the name for a group of rural districts, while mobile communities grazed their animals on the mountain pastures between Barçınlı and Bolvadin. The dry plains below supported settled cultivation. In the eighteenth century records also mention communities living on Emirdağı, reflecting the mixture of pastoral and village life in the region.