Kyat Kala

Kyat Kala on the left bank of the Amu Darya was rebuilt under Anusha Khan as irrigation and settlement shifted in seventeenth-century Khwarazm. The digging of the Shahabad and Yarmish canals in 1681 accompanied the construction of a new earthen fortress on older ruins. People were transferred from the ancient Kyat on the opposite bank, and the settlement became known as New Kyat.

A new congregational mosque rose on the site of an earlier ruined mosque, with the governor's residence to its northeast. The town's defences reflected its importance as a provincial centre within the Khiva Khanate: rammed-earth walls, towers, a ditch and an eastern gate enclosed the settlement. Irrigation works, the movement of inhabitants and the rebuilding of political and religious institutions together shaped this new stage in Kyat's history.