found: Merefa, 1995- :v. 1, t.p. (Merefa) p. 5-6 (founded in 1654, until 1765 it served as company center of the Kharkivsʹkyĭ kozat︠s︡ʹkyĭ polk)
found: Russian Brockhaus:v. 19, p. 115 (a village in the Kharʹkovskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡)
found: GEOnet WWW, 09-13-96(hdg.: Merefa, ppl.: 49°49ʹ11ʺN, 36°03ʹ07ʺE)
found: Encyc. of Ukraine:v. 3, p. 383 (Merefa, a city on the Merefa River in Kharkiv raion, Kharkiv oblast. Founded in the 17th cent. as a Cossack settlement, it served as a company center in the Kharkiv Regiment. In the early 18th cent. it was destroyed several times by Crimean Tatars. Merefa achieved city status in 1938. Archaeologists have discovered several settlements there from the Neolithic Period and the Bronze Age, as well as Scythian and Saltiv culture settlements)
