Khorasan
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From Persian خراسان (Xorâsân), from earlier خوراسان (xwarâsân), from Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”).
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Khorasan
- (historical) The Sassanian and post-Islamic Persian name for the region of Parthia located in north east of Persia (Iran), sometimes covering also parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan; the Greater Khorasan.
- A pre-2004 province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.
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