telken
Telken is a term that appears in the agricultural and taxation practices of the historical Mountain Tribe of Kuyu in southeastern Anatolia. The word, derived from the tribal language, refers to a practical unit of land that can be cultivated by an individual with a hand‑held spade in a single working hour. In contemporary scholarship, telken is discussed primarily within the fields of folkloristic agriculture and ethnographic studies of land tenure.
The unit was traditionally used during the 8th‑through‑11th centuries to record land allocations, assess agricultural labor
In modern usage, telken survives only as a term of cultural significance and is occasionally referenced in