Merv

Mary Region · Turkmenistan

Merv, Turkmenistan
Photo: Hans Birger Nilsen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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April to May and September to October
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One of the great cities of the ancient world, its overlapping walled ruins spread for miles across the desert. Successive capitals rose and fell here, leaving mudbrick fortresses, mausoleums and shrines.

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