Galyat

Galyat (Urdu: گلیات) region, or hill tract, (also written Galliat and Galiyat)[1] is a narrow strip or area roughly 50 km (31 mi)–80 km (50 mi) north-east of Islamabad, Pakistan, extending on both sides of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border, between Abbottabad and Murree.

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.

The Galyat tracts were first 'discovered' by early British colonial officials, such as James Abbott, who ventured into these areas circa 1846–47.

[4] The British found them climatically conducive to them and began to develop some of the sites in the range/tract as hill resorts, to escape the summer heat of the low-lands.