The Mervi Turks of the Emirate of Bukhara
The Mervi are the descendants of the 40,000 Persians
transplanted from Merv to Bokhara by the Emir Said Khan, when about the year
1810 he took that city by aid of the Sarik. The race sprang originally from the
Turks of Azerbaydjan and Karabag, whom Nadir Shah transferred from their
ancient homes to Merv. Next to the Tadjiks, the Mervi is the most cunning
amongst the inhabitants of Bokhara, but he is far from being so cowardly as the
former.
Arminius Vambéry, Travels in Central Asia; being the account of a
journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the eastern shore of the
Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand performed in the year 1863. — London:
John Murray, 1864. Pp. 370—371.
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