For the historical region, see Greater Khorasan. For the violent extremist militant group, see Islamic State – Khorasan Province. For other uses, see Khorasan (disambiguation).
Former province of Iran
Khorasan Province
استان خراسان
Khurasan Khorassan
Former province of Iran
Location of Khorasan within Iran (pre-2004)
Country
Iran
Dissolved
September 2004
Area
• Total
299,231 km2 (115,534 sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+03:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+04:30 (IRST)
Main language(s)
Persian
The domes of the Imam Reza shrine and the Goharshad Mosque, 1976, at Mashhad, a major city in the former Khorasan and now the capital of the Razavi Khorasan Province
Khorasan (Persian: استان خراسان[xoɾɒːˈsɒːn]ⓘ; also transcribed as Khurasan, Xorasan and Khorassan), also called Traxiane during Hellenistic and Parthian times, was a province in northeastern Iran until September 2004, when it was divided into three new provinces: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan.
Khorasan historically referred to a much larger area, comprising the east and the northeast of the Persian Empire. The name Khorāsān is Persian and means "where the sun arrives from".[1] The name was first given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sasanian Empire[2] and was used from the Late Middle Ages in distinction to neighbouring Transoxiana.[3][4][5]
This province, whose people are mainly Shia Muslims,[6] roughly encompassed the western portion of the historical Greater Khorasan.[7] The modern boundaries of the Iranian province of Khorasan were formally defined in the late nineteenth century[2] and the province was divided into three separate administrative divisions in 2004.[8]
^Compare Levant and Mashriq.
^ ab"Khorāsān". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.4
^C. Edmund Bosworth, (2002), 'CENTRAL ASIA iv. In the Islamic Period up to the Mongols' Encyclopaedia Iranica (online)
^C. Edmund Bosworth, (2011), 'MĀ WARĀʾ AL-NAHR' Encyclopaedia Iranica (online)
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