Meriya

Meriya (मेरिया) Meria (मेरिया) Meran (मेरान) Meriha (मेरिहा) is Gotra of Jats found in Madhya Pradesh. Meran is a branch of Chauhans.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Meriya = Meroë (Pliny.vi.35, Pliny.vi.35, , Pliny.vi.38, Pliny.vi.39)

• Meriya (मेरिया) (Jat clan) → Mera Meri (मेरा-मेरी) is a a village in Narwar tahsil of Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh. Author (Laxman Burdak) visited it on 06.12.1983.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Troglodytice....Juba states, too, that the inhabitants who dwell on the banks of the Nile from Syene as far as Meroë, are not a people of Æthiopia, but Arabians; and that the city of the Sun, which we have mentioned²⁹ as situate not far from Memphis, in our description of Egypt, was founded by Arabians.

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29 Heliopolis, described in B. v. c. 4.

Distribution in MP

Villages in Ratlam district

Villages in Ratlam district with population of Meriya (मेरिया) gotra are:

Namli 6, Rughnathgarh 3, Salakhedi 4,

Villages in Harda district

Ratatalai, Uman,

Villages in Ujjain district

Buranabad,

References

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