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Khorāsān (former administrative division) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 059 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 59.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Khorāsān, known as the Land of the Rising Sun, was one of the largest provinces in Iran and approximately corresponds to the boundaries of ancient Parthia. The region was an important component of the Achaemenid (5229-651 BCE) and Sāsānid (224-651 CE) empires. It was conquered by the Arabs in 651-652, and later by Ghenghis Khan in 1220, and still later by Timur (Tamerlane) in ca. 1383. The largely agricultural region contains many ethnic groups, and was the home of celebrated poet Omar Khayyam. The large province was split into three separate provinces (Khorāsān-e Jonūbī, Khorāsān-e Raẕavī, and Khorāsān-e Shomālī) in 2004. |
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| Khorāsān (preferred,C,V,display,Persian-Farsi (transliterated))
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| Khorasan (historical) (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Khurasan (historical) (C,V)
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| Parthia (C,V)
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............ | name for this area, refers to the ancient nation that was nearly coextensive with modern province |
| חוראסן (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ostān-e Khorāsān (C,U,O,Persian-Farsi (transliterated)-P)
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| 9 (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| IX (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Ninth Ostan (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Ostān-e 9 (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Ostan-e Nohom (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| استان خراسان (C,U,Persian-Farsi-P)
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| خراسان (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Īrān (nation) (P) |
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Khorāsān (former administrative division) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| former administrative division (preferred, C) |
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| province (H) |
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| first level subdivision (H) |
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| area (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| coextensive with .... |
Parthia .......... (historical region) |
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(World, Asia, Īrān) [6004562] |
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