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Oasis in Soviet Turkmenistan, a centre of
civilization from at least 1200 BC, and site
of a town founded by Alexander the Great. Old
Merv was destroyed by the emir of Bokhara
1787, and the modern town of Mary, founded by
the Russians in 1885, lies 29 km/18 mi to its
west.