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Banakat
Banākat, Banākath, Fanākat, or Fanākath was a town on the upper Syr Darya in Transoxiana (present-day Central Asia).
The second part of these names, kat or kath, is an Eastern Iranian ( Soghdian) compound meaning town. Its other forms are kāt, kāth, kant, kand as in Samarkand and Chāchkand (now Tashkent). It is similar to the Persian suffix '-kada'.
Banākat was located near Khujand in present-day Tajikistan. At the time of his invasion, Chingis Khan divided his army into four:
- one part under Jochi to capture cities around Syr Darya including Khujand and Banākat
- one part under Chagatai and Ögedei to capture Otrar
- two other parts under Tolui and himself to capture Samarkand.
This town was later rebuilt by Timur (Tamerlane) and renamed Shahrukhiya after his son Shahrukh.