Qubodijon

Qubodijon gave its name to a district of the upper Oxus basin watered by the Kafirnigan River. Its fields depended on old canals, and medieval geographers counted its fortified town among the settlements of Transoxiana. Madder grown in the southern part of the district was an important product, while saffron came from the north; the Samanid government supervised their export.

The Persian poet and traveller Nasir Khusraw was born in Qubadiyan in 1004. After serving in the Seljuk administration, he travelled to Mecca and Cairo and became an Ismaili missionary, eventually finding refuge in the mountains of Badakhshan. In the Timurid period Qubadiyan was often subject to Herat, linking this old district of the upper Oxus with the rulers of Khorasan.