Port Arthur town of Knights of Round Table
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Small, semi-independent states arose under the rule of the region's tribal chiefs later in the 14th century.
In the 1370s, Amir Timur (also known as Tamerlane), one of the greatest conquerors in human history, captured Turkmen states once more and established the short lived Timurid Empire, which collapsed after Timur's death in 1405, when Turkmens became independent once again."
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So, we are looking for a possibilty English/British Wizard Merlin had came on island England as a traveler Wizard from a town Merv.
Merv ----- Merlin (???)
We will see events in Merv town history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv
From Wikipedia
"Merv
(Turkmen: Merw,
formerly
Achaemenid Persian Satrapy of Margiana, and later
Alexandria (Margiana) and
Antiochia in Margiana,
was a major oasis-city in Central Asia,
on the historical Silk Road,
located near today's
Mary in Turkmenistan.
Several cities have existed on this site, which is significant for the interchange of culture and politics at a site of major strategic value.
The site of ancient Merv has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. (See List of World Heritage Sites in Turkmenistan)
Merv
has prehistoric roots:
archaeological surveys have revealed many traces of village life as far back as
the 3rd millennium BC
and have associated the area culturally with
the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex.
The geography of the
Zend-Avesta (commentaries on the Avesta) mentions
Merv (under the name of Mouru) along with
Balkh.
In Zoroastrianism,
the god Ahura Mazda created
Mouru as one of sixteen perfect lands.
Under the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BC),
the historical record mentions
Merv
as a place of some importance: under the name of
Margu
it occurs as part of one of the satrapies in
the Behistun inscriptions (ca. 515 BC) of the
Persian monarch
Darius Hystaspis.
The first city of
Merv
was founded
in the 6th century BC
as part of the
Achaemenid expansion into the region of
Cyrus the Great
(559-530 BC),
but later strata deeply cover the Achaemenid levels at the site.
Hellenistic era
Alexander the Great's visit
to
Merv is merely legendary,
but the city was named
Alexandria
after him for a time.
After Alexander's death
in 323 BC,
Merv
became the capital of the Province of Margiana of the Seleucid, Greco-Bactrian (256-125 BC), Parthian, and Sassanid states.
The Seleucid ruler
Antiochus Soter (reigned 281-261 BC)
renamed
Merv
as
Antiochia Margiana;
he rebuilt and expanded the city at the site presently known as
Gyaur Gala (G"aw"urgala) fortress.
After the fall of the Seleucid dynasty, Bactria, Parthia, and the Kushans took control in succession.
Merv
was a major city of
Buddhist learning,
with
Buddhist monastery temples for many centuries
until its Islamicization.
At the site of Gyaur Kala and Bairam Ali Buddhism was followed and practised often at the local Buddhist stupas.
After
the Sassanid Ardashir I
(220-240 AD) took
Merv,
the study of numismatics picks up the thread:
the unbroken series of coins originally minted at Merv document a long unbroken direct Sassanian rule of almost four centuries.
During this period
Merv
was home to practitioners of various religions beside
the official Sassanid
Zoroastrianism, including
Buddhists,
Manichaeans, and
Christians of the Church of the East.
Between the 6th (553) and 11th centuries AD,
Merv
served as the seat of an
East Syrian metropolitan province,
key in
the Dualist church's mission
east up the Silk Road to Turkestan and China.
The Hephthalite (Hun) occupation
from the end of the 5th century to 565 AD
briefly interrupted Sassanid rule.
[ The city of Marv, Turkmenistan in the 4th century as shown on the Peutinger Map ]
the Peutinger Map
Peutinger Map
Tabula Peutingeriana ((ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Empire.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana