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city in central asia, located near the modern day city of mary, turkmenistan . merv occupied a crucial position near the entrance into afghanistan on the northwest, and acted as a stepping stone between northeast persia and the states of bukhara and samarkand . it is the oldest and most completely preserved
opened its gates to tule, son of genghis khan , chief of the mongols , on which occasion most of the inhabitants are said to have been butchered. the persian historian juvayni, writing a generation after the destruction of merv, wrote "the mongols ordered that, apart from four hundred artisans. .., the whole...
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