Vekse
20 minutes below Gesi. 60 houses, watered gardens, mainly svac and boyac, general
appearance poorer and scruffier, no middle class education. 1 gretmen (local); yarclk {gl :share cropping - 'halfer'}, not irak {gl : contracted labourer}, for
working of richer men's lands; modern school, church in good order used as stable (Rum) {gl : Greek}.
{Walked from Sk - diary]
k<Vekse, land use, occupation>
{com: villages I visited in the Sivas Road valley near Kayseri all had large numnbers of permanent hshlds
with migrant skilled building labour. Claimed this had been going on for generations - Mimarsinan}
-----