Ikan

Ikan is an old settlement in the Turkistan oasis south of Yasi. Its fields and gardens were watered by channels descending from the Karatau foothills, and its inhabitants shared the routes and markets of the surrounding oasis. Medieval towns and villages occupied a chain of small irrigated districts between the mountains and the Syr Darya. The old settlement and its burial places recall the long history of communities living between the cultivated land and the steppe.