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Region: Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers: GeoNames
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Merv is an ancient city in present-day Turkmenistan, which was the capital of Khurasan. The Abbasid call (da'wa) set out from it, and al-Ma'mun stayed there before moving to Baghdad. ¹

Al-Maqdisi lists among its features the great melon of Merv, which has no equal in the regions of Persia. ²

What is related about the killing of Yazdegerd near it needs an additional source.

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Place of death of: يوسف الهمذاني
Site of: Battle of Dandanqan (1040)· The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar· death of Sultan Shah of Merv — Malikshah takes Khurasan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized

People and things also explored

Abd Allah ibn Amir· Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi· جغري بك بن سلجوق· Firuz son of Yazdgard III· Mahuwayh· خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد· Nizak Tarkhan· طغرل بك

Sources

GeoNames gazetteer
Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim of al-Muqaddasi , p.247

al-Farghani, Elementa astronomica (Golius, Amsterdam 1669)

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islam.museum contributors. “Merv”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/merv/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.

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Abd Allah ibn Amir

He came to Basra in the year 30 AH, then went out to Fars and conquered it, and sent Mujashi' ibn Mas'ud in pursuit of Yazdegerd. The index records his march to Khurasan and the conquests he made there in 31 AH. According to al-Baladhuri, he came to Basra in the year 29, when all of Fars had been conquered except Istakhr and Jur.