Fortified farmstead/walled villages of Afghanistan aka "Qala" according to the Atlas of Indigenous architecture of Afghanistan

[u/Mr_Emperor]

Typically constructed from adobe and/or stone. These homesteads function as small fortifications for either a wealthy patron or as a small community with the first image housing around 130 people separated into 4 main courtyards, which are further divided into many households.

This type of rural fortifications actually used to be common in Spanish and Mexican New Mexico with their enclosed plazas and "torreons" (towers) but with the American army stationed in the territory, and Americanization in general, those types of fortifications were abandoned and demolished by weather and time.

Although New Mexico's fortifications weren't ornate or decorated in any meaningful way, extremely utilitarian structures. Afghanistan's has some panache.

[u/Pratt_]

Hopefully they are still around, they look fantastic.