The concept of dam (originally ‘tam’) was used to mean ‘rampart’ (castle wall) in the Turkish societies of the
Central Asia [6]. However, today it bears different meanings in different regions. In the central, eastern and
southeastern Anatolia regions as well as in the villages and towns of the Lakes’ Region around Antalya, this term is
used to mean ‘a house with a soil roof’, ‘cabin’ or ‘half-village house’. It means ‘a room of a house’ around the city of
Yozgat. It means a closed place around Emirda