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They are mentioned by the 6th Century Gothic scholar Jordanes as the Merens and later by the Russian chronicles. They were assimiliated by the Slavs. However, the merya culture was also assimilated by them in those regions that were initially inhibited by merya. Sacred woods and stones, worshiped by merya, participated in local traditional feasts much longer than the similar slavic sacred places in the west regions of modern Russia. Also the name Merya (in some cases spoken like 'Nerya') is still kept in a lot of local toponims, and was preserved later in a much more vast number of them. The examples are: Nero Lake near Rostov The Great , Nerskaya River near Kurovskoe in Moscow Oblast , Nerskoe Lake in Solnechnogorsky Region of Moscow Oblast , villages 'Nerya' etc. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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