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Khorasan
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Khorasan

Province in northeast Iran, bordering on Turkmenistan and Afghanistan; area 313,500 sq km/121,042 sq mi; population (1991) 6,013,200. The capital is Mashhad. Khorasan is Iran's largest province. The chief products are grain, tobacco, cotton, fruits, and wool. There are turquoise mines at Neyshabur.

In the early Middle Ages the name Khorasan was applied to all the Muslim provinces east of the Great Persian Desert, and all of northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan. In medieval times it was divided into four quarters, the main towns of which were Neyshabur, Marv, Herat, and Balkh.



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[who] was taken by the elegance and precision of the engraving and suggested a dating of 1700[+ or -]20 years; he also inclined to favour a provenance from Khurasan, i.
David A. King (1999), World-Maps for Finding the Direction and ... by Iqbal, Muzaffar / Islam & Science
After a careful analysis of their ambiguous roots and their complicated relations with other power welders in Central Asia, he informs us that "It is conceivable that the Muhtajids of the fourth/tenth century were the Iranized descendants of an Arab family which had long been settled in Khurasan and which was eventually, by some process unknown to us, accepted as holders of power in Chaghanian .
The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and ... by al-Taie, Ali / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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