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NEW See also: present chief See also: town of the oasis, founded in the first, quarter .of the 19th century, is on the Transcaspian railway, 38o m. by See also: rail See also: south-west from See also: Samarkand
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It stands on both See also: banks of the See also: Murghab, 82o ft. above the See also: Caspian
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Pop
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(1897), 8727, including Russians, Armenians, Turkomans, Persians and Jews
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It has a meteorological See also: observatory
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Corn, raw See also: cotton, hides, wool, nuts and dried fruit are exported
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O'See also: Donovan, The Mery Oasis (2 vols., See also: London, 1882); C
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Marvin, Mery (London, 188o) ; and H
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Lansdell, The Russians at Mery and See also: Herat (London, 1883)
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