Navidakh

Navidakh stood on the middle Oxus near an important crossing at Keshk Zukhra-i Tahir. The river provided water for settlements and cultivated land amid the surrounding desert, while crossings connected the roads on its opposite banks. Archaeological finds, including Samanid coins, attest to the settlement's connections with the wider cities of Transoxiana. Travellers, merchants and armies used the river crossings, making the fortified places along this reach important links between Khorasan and the lands east of the Oxus.