The Mervi Turks
Near
Ghurian, in Afghanistan, and also near Turbat Shaik Jami, in Persia, a number
of people are settled, called Mervis. Some of these people also reside in the
town of Mashad. They can be recognized at a glance as very different from
Persians or Aimaks. These people are refugees who fled from Merv when Bairam
Aly Khan, the Kajar Chief, was killed and the town captured (1784) by Amir
Masum of Bokhara. They are found scattered all over Central Asia, and I
received a good deal of interesting information about Samarkand from a Mervi of
that place, whom I met in Mashad.
Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart,
Bengal Staff Corps, on Special Duty on the Perso-Afghan Frontier, 1883, p. 52.
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