Khoja-Idat Kala

Khoja-Idat Kala is a fortified archaeological site near Halach on the middle Oxus. Like other settlements along this reach, it developed beside the river that sustained agriculture and carried traffic through the desert. Its town and citadel belonged to a series of defended sites that had taken shape by the late Kushan period. Many were abandoned after the Mongol invasion, leaving their walls and mounds as traces of the old settled landscape along the Amu Darya.