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ID: 7012226
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012226
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mary (inhabited place)  Mary (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 061 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 61.8333  decimal degrees

Note: City and provincial center of southeastern Turkmenistan, Mary was founded in 1884 near the ruins of the ancient city of Merv, taking that name until 1937. It is located on the Morghāb River, at the intersection of the Karakum canal and the Krasnovodsk-Tashkent railway. The city is the location of a major natural gas field.

Names:
Mary (preferred,C,V)
Merv (H,V)  ............ until 1937

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Türkmenistan (nation)  ........  Türkmenistan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mary (province)  ............  Mary (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Mary (inhabited place)  ................  Mary (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1884 on the site of an earlier Turkmen fort
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
transport point (C)
power production center (C)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Merv .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Asia, Türkmenistan, Mary) [7012244]

Sources and Contributors:
Mary..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Britannica Book of the Year (1988) VII,901
...........  Britannica Book of the Year (1998) 728
...........  CIA, World Fact Book (1996) accessed 01/20/99
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Merv..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II,591-592
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1988) VII,901
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1998) 728
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II,591-592
..................  CIA, World Fact Book (1996) accessed 01/20/99
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 12 August 2004

 

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