Merv Sentence Examples

It rises in the northern slopes of the Koh-i-Baba to the west of Kabul, and finally loses itself in the Tejend oasis north of the Trans-Caspian railway and west of Merv.

With the opening of the Russian railway from the Caspian to Merv, Bokhara and Samarkand in 1886-1887, Russian manufacturers were enabled to compete in Central Asia with their western rivals, and the value of European manufactures passing Meshed in transit was much reduced.

During their dominion Merv, like Samarkand and Bokhara, was one of the great schools of learning, and the celebrated historian Yaqut studied in its libraries.

Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew Alp Arslan (the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv.

When Sir Alexander Burnes traversed the country in 1832, the Khivans were the rulers of Merv.

Among the works which he translated into Syriac and of which his versions survive are treatises of Aristotle, Porphyry and Galen, 3 the Ars grammatica of Dionysius Thrax, the works of Dionysius the Areopagite, and possibly two or three treatises of Plutarch.4 His own original works are less important, but include a " treatise on logic, addressed to Theodore (of Merv), which is unfortunately imperfect, a tract on negation and affirmation; a treatise, likewise addressed to Theodore, On the Causes of the Universe, according to the Views of Aristotle, showing how it is a Circle; a tract On Genus, Species and Individuality; and a third tract addressed to Theodore, On the Action and Influence of the Moon, explanatory and illustrative of Galen's IIEpi rcptaiµwv r t µepwv, bk.

Elias of Merv, who belongs to the 2nd half of the 7th century, compiled a Catena patrum on the Gospels and wrote many commentaries.

A certain number, too, of Arabic Christians, believers living on the west coast of India, the so-called Christians of St Thomas, and finally those belonging to places nearer the middle of Asia (Merv, Herat, Samarkand), remained in communion with the Nestorian church.

Many colonial Roman coins of the 3rd and 4th centuries, and silver dirhems, stamped at Samarkand, Balkh, Merv, &c., were also found in 1869.

Mahommed had been successful by the aid of his brother Sinjar, who from the year 1097 held the province of Khorasan with the capital Merv.

In February 1884 Russia annexed Merv.

The first army sent by Ziyad into Khorasan recaptured Merv, Herat and Balkh, conquered Tokharistan and advanced as far as the Oxus.

He therefore asked the caliph to give him the governorship of Khorasan also, and took his residence in Merv, where he was free from control.

Soraij, seconded by Yazid III., reappeared on the scene, crossed the Oxus and came to Merv.

Nasr received him with the greatest honour, hoping to get his aid against Kirmani, but IIarith, to whom 3000 men of his tribe, the Tamim, had gone over, demanded Nasr's abdication and tried to make himself master of Merv.

Meantime, Nasr had moved from Nishapur to Merv, and here the two Arabic armies confronted each other.

But Abu Moslim contrived to re-awaken their mutual distrust and jealousy, and, taking advantage of the opportunity, made himself master of Merv, in Rabia II.

So severe indeed was the discipline he exercised, that one of the chief missionaries, who by a secret warning had rendered possible the escape of Nasr from Merv, paid for it with his life.

The caliph went in person to Merv, in order to judge of the reality of the complaints which had reached him.

A courier was despatched immediately to Merv, who performed the journey, a distance of about 750 miles, in three days.

Mamun was in no haste to remove to Bagdad, but continued to reside at Merv.

A`yan, who was already at Holwan on his way back to Merv, entreating him to come to his aid.

Meanwhile, at Merv, Mamun was adopting a decision which fell like a thunderbolt on the Abbasids.

In 1037 Seljuk princes were recognized in Merv and Nishapur, and in the ensuing eighteen years the Seljuks conquered Balkh, Jorjan, Tabaristan, Klwarizm, Hamadan, Rai, Isfahan, and finally Bagdad (1055).

Merv also profited from his atten.tion to its material interests.

In Merv, a KhorSsgnian town, a certain Abbks composed in 809 A.D.

In 1896 Dr Sven Hedin discovered in the desert not far from the town of Khotan, in a locality known as Borasan, objects in terra-cotta, bronze images of Buddha, engraved gems, coins and MSS.; the objects, which display artistic skill, give indications of having been wrought by craftsmen who laboured to reproduce Graeco-Indian ideals in the service of the cult of Buddha, and consequently date presumably from the 3rd century B.C., when the successors of Alexander the Great were founding their kingdoms in Persia, Khwarezm (Khiva), Merv, Bactria (Afghanistan) and northern India, and from that date to the 4th or 5th century A.D.

His partisans were ordered to assemble from all sides on a fixed day at Sigadenj in the province of Merv.

Merv Griffin and his wife were going over game show ideas and she said that there had never been a trivia show since the famous quiz show scandals of the previous years.

Merv replied, "What is the number of feet in a mile."

Merv thought it was a great idea and went to NBC to pitch the idea.

It was also around this time that Maharishi appeared on The Merv Griffin Show, where the show's host and a number of famous guests endorsed the program to the show's more than 30 million viewers.

Jeopardy! was created by Merv Griffin, who also developed Wheel of Fortune.

His stand-up gained even more attention as he made appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and The Merv Griffin Show.

Merv Griffin - Talk show host, real estate tycoon, and game show creator; passed away from prostate cancer on August 12 at age 82.

Take turns guessing clues in "Head-to-Head" or "Free For All" games, or try the "Showtime" game and play by the rules of Merv Griffin's CROSSWORDS game show.

The awards were first begun in 1977, with the first Soapies being handed out on The Merv Griffin Show after the winners were announced in the magazine.