Merv, an oasis in Turkestan, belonging to Russia, being conquered in 1883, 60 m. long by 40 broad, producing cereals, cotton, silk, &c.; breeds horses, camels, sheep, with a capital of the same name, on the Transcaspian railway.
Population (circa 1900) given as 500,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Merthyr-Tydvil * Meryon, Charles