Banakat

• 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.

Famous people from Banakat

• Amir Ahmad Banākati:, the finance minister and vizier of Qubilai Khan
• Mohammad Banākati : a Persian religious scholar and father of Davoud and Ali Banākati.
• Davoud Banākati : Persian poet and historian who wrote Rawzat al-Ulu al-Albāb fi Ma'rifat Tawārikh al-Akābir wa al-Ansāb . This book is also known as Tārikh-i Banākati. Davoud Banākati wrote this book in 1317 CE / 717 AH for Abu Said Bahatur. He was poet laureate of Ghazan Khan court.
• Ali Banākati : a great mystic and Sufi from Tabriz, brother of Davoud Banākati.
• Nāsekh Banākati a well-known and high-quality copyist and calligrapher who was contemporary with Khwaja Nasireddin Tusi and copied several of his works and met him in Maragha observatory.