Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text

The text related to the cultural heritage 'State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”' has mentioned 'Samarkand' in the following places:
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During this period Merv, like Samarkand and Bukhara, functioned as one of the great cities of Muslim scholarship; the celebrated historian Yaqut (1179xe2x80x931229) studied in its libraries.
The entire population of the city and the surrounding oasis of about 100,000 were then deported in several stages to the Bukharan oasis and Samarkand region in the Zarafshan Valley.
Being the last remaining Persian-speaking Shias, the deportees resisted assimilation into the Sunni population of Bukhara and Samarkand, despite the common language of Persian they spoke with most natives.
They live in Samarkand as well as in Bukhara and in the area in between on the Zarafshan river.
Thus they make Merv a sort of watch tower over the entrance into Afghanistan on the north-west and at the same time create a stepping-stone or xc3xa9tape between north-east Persia and the states of Bokhara and Samarkand.
The delta, and thus Merv, lies at the junction of these two routes: the northwestxe2x80x93southeast route to Herat and Balkh (to the Indus and beyond) and the southwestxe2x80x93northeast route from Tus and Nishapur to Bukhara and Samarkand.
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