Khuttal

Khuttal was a region and principality between the Vakhsh and Panj rivers north of the Oxus. Its earlier princes ruled from Hulbuk; after the Mongol conquests it became part of the Chagatai Khanate.

As the khanate disintegrated in the mid-fourteenth century, Khuttal re-emerged as an autonomous principality. Its lords served in Timur’s armies. In the sixteenth century the Shaybanids absorbed Khuttal, and the old name gradually gave way to Kulob.