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26-495: Ali Kadam is located at 21°40′00″N 92°18′20″E  /  21.6667°N 92.3056°E  / 21.6667; 92.3056 . It has 9,422 households and a total area of 885.77 km. It is bordered by Lama upazila to the north, Thanchi upazila to the east, Rakhine State of Myanmar to the south and Naikhongchhari upazila to the west. At the boundary with Thanchi Upazila , the 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) Alikadam-Thanchi Road ascends hill Dim Pahar , making it one of

52-404: A Mahalle council ( Persian : شورای محله ), a quarter mosque, and a small parkette. A maalo (sometimes maale ), plural maala ( Macedonian : маало / маале, маала ) is a synonym for neighborhood in colloquial speech, but can also appear as part of a neighborhood name, such as Skopje's "Debar maalo", and Bitola's "Jeni maale", "Madzar maala". In Romanian, the word mahala has come to have

78-501: A muhtasib and a territorial muhtasibat . They were urban divisions in central Asian communities which today exist in Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan , and Tajikistan . Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Before the establishment of the Soviet rule in central Asia, mahallas fulfilled local self-government functions connecting

104-508: A separate type of settlement administration on some occasions. In rural mountainous areas, villages were often scattered and consisted of relatively separate mahalas with badly developed infrastructure . Today, settlements are divided into towns or villages, and the official division of towns is into quarters. It today is used almost always to refer to the Roma neighbourhoods of towns such as Arman Mahala . In Greece , mahalas ( Greek : μαχαλάς )

130-498: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lama Upazila Lama ( Bengali : লামা ) is an upazila of Bandarban District in the Division of Chittagong , Bangladesh . Lama is located at 21°46′30″N 92°12′00″E  /  21.7750°N 92.2000°E  / 21.7750; 92.2000 . It has a total area of 671.83 km . Lama upazila is bordered by Bandarban Sadar upazila and Chittagong district to

156-438: Is a Buddhist shrine on the top of this hill which is about 1650 feet high. The huge Buddha statues in the open nature make this place more solemn. The mountains on the horizon and the river Matamuhuri flowing like a snake below, the crop fields are all a state of imagination will give unconditional feelings. Most of the tribals including Tripura , Marma , Murang people live in this Marayong Thong hill. Indigenous neighborhoods in

182-477: Is an Islamic congregation or parish. Typically, a mahalla supports a single mosque. An imam is seen as the spiritual head of a mahalla. Mahallas are directly subordinate to a city or town , especially an electoral district, for ritual and representative purposes. Unlike a ward , it is an optional and non-elective unit of a city corporation or municipal corporation . Mahalla also means an urban neighbourhood. In Bulgaria , mahalas were historically considered

208-509: Is an official administrative unit in many Middle Eastern countries. The word was brought to the Balkans through Ottoman Turkish mahalle , but it originates in Arabic محلة ( mähallä ), from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy". In September 2017, a Turkish-based association referred to the historical mahalle by organizing a festival with the title "Mahalla" in the frame of parallel events of

234-482: Is considered a neighborhood. Sometimes it is considered a quarter of a small town or a gypsy neighborhood. The township of Szentendre lost most of its population during the Ottoman era, and was repopulated by various migrant groups from the Balkans - Serbs , Dalmatians , Bosniaks and the like. They built their own churches and created their own neighborhoods around them. They called them mahala or mehala , using

260-469: Is subdivided into 9 wards and 34 mahallas . This Chittagong Division location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mahalla A mahallah , also mahalla , mahallya , mahalle , mohalla , mehalla , or mehalle is an Arabic word variously translated as district , quarter , ward , or neighborhood in many parts of the Arab world , the Balkans , Western Asia ,

286-570: The Indian subcontinent , and nearby nations. Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Today it is popularly recognised also by non-Muslims as a neighbourhood in large cities and towns. Mahallas lie at the intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions are performed through mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, life-cycle rituals, resource management and conflict resolution. It

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312-556: The 15th Istanbul Biennial . The festival in Istanbul features cultural initiatives of civil society and artists from the Middle East, Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. Against the background of the ongoing migration crisis, all participants of the festival focus their work using themes of hospitality, identity formation, homelessness, migration, fluctuation, the changing of an existing order and

338-608: The Ottoman nomenclature, and the word is still in use to describe these small quarters of the town today. In India, the word mohalla is used in Hindi and Urdu to refer to a "neighbourhood". The "mahalle" is the smallest urban administrative division in Iran . Each city is divided into a few Mantaqe s, ( Persian : منطقه ), which is then divided into Nahiye s ( Persian : ناحیه ), further subdivided to Mahalle ( Persian : محله ), usually having

364-591: The Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi. The word is used in many languages and countries to mean neighborhood or location and originated in Arabic محلة ( maḥalla ), from the root meaning 'to settle', 'to occupy', derived from the verb halla (to untie), as in untying a pack horse or camel to make a camp. In ancient cultures, hospitality involved welcoming a stranger at the host location and offering him food, shelter and safety. That demonstration of hospitality centred on

390-460: The belief that strangers should be assisted and protected while they travel. A mahala was a relatively-independent quarter of a larger village or a town, usually with its own school , religious building or buildings, mayor's representative etc. Mahalas are often named after the first settler or, when ethnically separate, according to the dominant ethnicity. In the Ottoman Empire, the "mahalle"

416-573: The dissolution of borders. The second Mahalla Festival took place 2018 in Valletta , Malta , in the frame of European Capital of Culture under the title "Generating New Narratives". The third Mahalla Festival took place in 2020 under the title " Wandering Towers " with online and physical events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 edition, " Murmuration ", took place in the Istanbul district of Kadıköy at

442-517: The foothills have added special diversity to the beauty of the hills of Ali Kadam. The lifestyle of the people who depend on the mountains and the pure nature fills the eyes of the tourists who come here. Alikadam Upazila is divided into four union parishads : Alikadam, Chaikkhyang, Kurukpata, and Nayapara. There is a shortage of high schools in the area. there is only 1 government high school in Ali Kadam. This Chittagong Division location article

468-602: The highest motorable roads in Bangladesh. As of the 2022 Bangladeshi census , Alikadam upazila had a population of 63,800. The ethnic population was 25,113 (39.36%), of which Mru were 15,168, Marma 3,857, Tripura 3,452 and Tanchangya 1,977. Ethnicity in Alikadam Upazila (2022) Alikadam is a popular hiking destination among tourists for the tunnels in the mountains known as "Alir Guha" or "Ali's Tunnels". Tourists are expected to face slippery and muddy terrains for

494-541: The hike to the tunnels. Winter is the safest season to travel because the mountain streams and rivers are dangerous during Monsoon. Another popular point is Marayan Thong. Recently it became popular tourist spot. Marayong Dong (Marayon Thong) is a hill in the Mirinja Range of Alikadam Police Station in Bandarban District . This hill is also known as Marayan Tong, Maraing Tong, Merai Thong Jadi, Maraing Dong etc. There

520-548: The mahalle is represented in the municipality and government by its muhtar . The muhtarlık, the office of the muhtar, has been designed as the smallest administrative office, with representative and enforcement powers at the local level. In some cases, however, the muhtar acts as not only the representative of the government towards the community but also the head of the community toward the government and subverts official government policies by intricate face-to-face mahalle-level relationships. A mahalla ( pronounced mo-hol-la ),

546-643: The north, Ruma and Thanchi upazilas to the east, Alikadam upazila to the south and Cox's Bazar district to the west. As of the 2022 Bangladeshi census , Lama upazila had a population of 139,689. The ethnic population was 33,221 (23.78%), of which Marma were 15,819, Mru 10,781 and Tripura 5,755. Ethnicity in Lama Upazila (2022) Lama Upazila is divided into Lama Municipality and seven union parishads : Aziznagar, Faitang, Fasyakhali, Gajalia, Lama, Rupshipara, and Sarai. The union parishads are subdivided into 18 mauzas and 343 villages. Lama Municipality

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572-481: The private sphere with the public sphere. Religious rituals, life-cycle crisis ceremonies, resource management, conflict resolution, and many other community activities were performed at the mahalla, in other words, on the neighbourhood level. An informal council of elders, called oqsoqol (or " aksakal ") provided leadership. After their inclusion in the Soviet Union, informal mahalla organizations were placed under

598-469: The state control and served as local extensions of the Soviet government. Mahallas were thought to be "eyes" and "ears" of the Soviet government; mahalla became a control mechanism of the state. Mahalla leaders were then appointed by the government. Mahalla level state-society relationships were more complex, however, as their leaders could serve as henchmen as well as act as buffers between the local community and

624-486: The state. Due to intimate, face-to face relationships dominant at the mahalla level, mahalla organizations could often shield the community from the incursions of the state. Since 1993, the Uzbek government reorganized mahalla councils as bearers of "Uzbek nationhood" and "morality," effectively reproducing Soviet style state domination over the society. Thus, they are formal structures run by committees and once again regulated by

650-503: The strictly negative or pejorative connotations of a slum or ghetto that are not present (or not as strongly implied) in other languages. A mahalla is an Islamic congregation or parish in Russia and a number of countries, once part of the Soviet Union . Typically, mahallas support a single mosque. An imam is seen as the spiritual head of the mahalla. Mahallas are directly subordinate to

676-487: Was the smallest administrative entity. The mahalle was generally perceived to play an important role in identity formation , with the local mosque and the local coffee house as the main social gathering institutions. Mahalle lay at the intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions were performed by mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, lifecycle rituals, resource management and conflict resolution. Today,

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