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Banakat


Banākat, Banākath, Fanākat, or Fanākath was a town on the upper Syr Darya in Transoxiana (present-day Tajikistan, Central Asia).

The second part of these names, kat or kath, is an Eastern Iranian (Soghdian) compound meaning town. Its other forms are kāt, kāth, kant, kand as in Samarkand and Chāchkand (now Tashkent). It is similar to the Persian suffix '-kada'.

Banākat was located near Khujand in present-day Tajikistan. At the time of his invasion, Chingis Khan divided his army into four:

This town was later rebuilt by Timur (Tamerlane) and renamed Shahrukhiya after his son Shahrukh.

There are several Persians called Banākati (i.e., of or related to Banākat), some of them born in Banākat and some born elsewhere:



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