Saksanokhur

37.55138888888969.390555555556Koordinaten: 37 ° 33 '5 " N, 69 ° 23' 26" E

Saksanochour is the modern name of an ancient settlement at Farchor in the south of present-day Tajikistan.

The place was investigated from 1966 to 1967 and from 1973 to 1977 by Soviet archaeologists before the remains were leveled. There were remains of a Greco- Bactrian and later settlement. In addition to Ai Khanoum it is one of the few excavated sites of Greek -Bactrian kingdom.

There was a citadel, whose center is a construction formed with a large courtyard, at which affiliated with a portico found. The wooden columns had once Corinthian capitals. The building probably dates to the second century BC In concept it is similar to other buildings in Ai Khanoum, where there are also buildings with large yard and affiliated portico.

In the adjacent to the fortress settlement there were dwellings and workshops, including pottery kilns. There were different layers can be distinguished. The lowermost dated to the Greco- Bactrian time and it can be presumed that the town was founded at this time. The upper layers belong to a Kuschanabesiedlung.