Akhsisek

Akhsisek was a small town near Zamm on the middle Oxus, distinct from the much larger Akhsikath in Fergana. The geographer Ibn Hawqal described its inhabitants travelling to Zamm for Friday prayers, since their own town had no congregational mosque. It belonged to the chain of settlements along the river, where cultivated ground and river crossings interrupted the surrounding desert. The Oxus joined these towns to the routes of Khorasan and Transoxiana.