Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian CivilizationsArchived 2016-08-31 at the वेबैक मशीन, Charles Higham, pp. 222, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-0996-1, ... Merv (now called Mary), once known as Antiochia Margiana, an oasis in southern Turkmenistan that attracted settlement from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, was the seat of several ancient kingdoms and the legendary home of the Aryans ...
Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic review, Volume 5, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1999, ... From this place to the Western Sea, Arabs and Persians dwell interspersed ... Several features of Du Huan's description ... Merv's position as an eastern garrison of the Arabs, the presence of Buddhist temples there ...
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Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian CivilizationsArchived 2016-08-31 at the वेबैक मशीन, Charles Higham, pp. 222, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-0996-1, ... Merv (now called Mary), once known as Antiochia Margiana, an oasis in southern Turkmenistan that attracted settlement from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, was the seat of several ancient kingdoms and the legendary home of the Aryans ...