Asanas

Asanas was a medieval town of the lower Syr Darya, among the old channels that spread toward the Aral Sea. Its inhabitants shared a material culture with the Oghuz communities of the river country, where fields and settlements lay beside pastoral lands. In 1219 a force of Jochi's army destroyed the town during the Mongol conquest. The name survived in the region, recalling one of the cities that once stood along the shifting waterways of the eastern Aral lands.