Fanakat

Fanakat, also called Banakat, stood on the Syr Darya near the meeting of the Ahangaran River with its larger neighbour. The fortified town controlled a crossing and a route between the Tashkent oasis and the cities farther south. After the Mongol destruction of the old settlement, Timur founded a new city nearby and named it Shahrukhiya after his son Shahrukh. Babur later described the Syr Darya flowing past its southern side before turning north toward Turkistan.