Back ماري (تركمانستان) Arabic مارى (مدينه فى ولايه مارى) ARZ Marı Azerbaijani Мары Bashkir Мары (горад) Byelorussian Мари Bulgarian Mary (Turkmenistan) Catalan Мары CE Mary (kapital sa lalawigan) CEB Mary (Turkmenistán) Czech
Mary
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.jpg) Regional Museum in Mary | |
  Mary Location in Turkmenistan | |
| Coordinates: 37°36′24.8″N 61°50′3.9″E / 37.606889°N 61.834417°E | |
| Country | Turkmenistan |
| Region | Mary |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Government | |
| • Hakim | Kakageldi Gurbanov |
| Elevation | 223 m (732 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 126,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
Mary (Turkmen pronunciation: [mɑˈɾɯ]; Cyrillic: Мары, 1992–1993: Marx), is a city on an oasis in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, located on the Murgab River. It was founded in 1884 about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the ruins of the ancient abandoned great city of Merv[1] and was actually named Merv until 1937.[2]
Mary is the capital city of Mary Region. In 2010, Mary had a population of 126,000,[3] up from 92,000 in the 1989 census.[4] .
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Britannicawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "МАРЫ" [Mary]. Slovar Online (in Russian). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ Britannica Book of the Year 2010. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2009. p. 719. ISBN 978-1-59339-232-1. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Population census 1989 Archived 18 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Demoscope Weekly, No. 359–360, 1–18 January 2009 (search for Туркменская ССР) (in Russian)