The outer side of the fortress is surrounded by a thick wall (the thickness of the outer wall is 2-2.5 meters), the corners are reinforced with massive towers; there are porches covered with domes between the towers, and the niches are decorated in a repetitive style.

According to oral information, the heroic girl Guloyim and her 40 friends who repelled the attack of the enemies mentioned in the folk epics lived in this place.

Moreover, until the 20th century, the people called the place of the fortress “Shahri Somon” (City of Saman).

[5] According to falk epics, at the time when the rule of the Samanids weakened and new struggles for the throne began, a fortress was built near Old Termez.

The fortress was a unique school for girls, an academy for studying science and art, and accepted its first students.

The girls who lived in the fortress learned Islam, medicine, arithmetic, astronomy and chemistry, weaving and military affairs.

According to the legends, the Mongol soldiers did not know that the defenders of the fortress were girls, and attacked with great force.

Despite this, the girls defended the fortress heroically, and died due to their lack of strength.

He compared it to the Khigarka fortress near the Froth River, built by Harun al-Rashid(786-809).

Zasipkin carried out excavation works in the central part of Qirqqiz Fortress.

Later research suggested that it was built in the Early Middle Ages and that the place was called “Shahri Somon” and that the monument was related to the Samanids.

The Termez archaeologist T.J.Annayev conducted extensive scientific research at Qirqqiz in 2016 and estimated that the building was built in the 14th-15th centuries.