What is "qalat"

Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat, may refer to:

Qalat (fortress), a fortified place or fortified village

The word qalat (kalata) is Persian and qal'at (qal‘a) is Arabic for 'fortified place'. It frequently occurs in place names. Qalats can range from castles like Rumkale to the mud-brick compound common throughout southwest Asia. The term is used throughout the Muslim world to indicate a defensive fortress. It is even preserved in place names in places such as Sicily which was occupied by the Aghlabid dynasty and then the Fatimids from the ninth to the twelfth centuries.

The Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kelat, is a Baloch tribe.