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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 176 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERV , the See also:present See also:chief See also:town of the See also:oasis, founded in the first, See also:quarter .of the 19th See also:century, is on the Transcaspian railway, 38o m. by See also:rail See also:south-See also:west from See also:Samarkand. It stands on both See also:banks of the See also:Murghab, 82o ft. above the See also:Caspian. Pop. (1897), 8727, including Russians, Armenians, Turkomans, Persians and See also:Jews. It has a meteorological See also:observatory. See also:Corn, raw See also:cotton, hides, See also:wool, nuts and dried See also:fruit are exported. See E. O'See also:Donovan, The Mery Oasis (2 vols., See also:London, 1882); C. Marvin, Mery (London, 188o) ; and H. Lansdell, The Russians at Mery and See also:Herat (London, 1883). (J. T.

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