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Greater Khorasan [2] (Middle Persian: 𐬒𐬊𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥, romanized: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان, [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
The Khorasan group, sometimes known simply as Khorasan, was an alleged group of senior al-Qaeda members operating in Syria. [15] The group was reported to consist of a small number of fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinated with al-Nusra Front , al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria.
Transoxiana's major cities and cultural centers are Samarkand and Bukhara. Both are in the southern portion of Transoxiana (though still to the north of the Amu Darya itself, on the Zarafshon) and Uzbekistan. The majority of the region was dry but fertile plains. Both cities remained centres of Persian culture and civilisation after the Muslim ...
In South Khorasan, the Baloch live as nomads and in the cities of South Khorasan as a group. In Birjand, Qaen, Nahbandan and Torbat Jam, [11] there are Baloch-inhabited areas that live densely with other ethnic groups. [12] [6] Kalateh-ye Morrehi; Zu ol Farrokh; Baluch Khaneh; Asefabad, Razavi Khorasan; Qush-e Azim; Qarah Qeytan; Jahand-e Pa'in ...
Khorasan commonly refers to: Greater Khorasan, a historical region of Central Asia, now in modern-day northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan and northern Afghanistan, sometimes used in a looser sense to include parts of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; The northeastern area of Iran, until 2004 comprising Khorasan Province, subsequently divided into:
It has been the historic capital of the Western Quarter [citation needed] of Greater Khorasan, the historic capital of the 9th-century Tahirid dynasty, the initial capital of the 11th-century Seljuk Empire, and is currently the capital city of Nishapur County and a historic Silk Road city [12] of cultural and economic importance in Iran and the ...
Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically the Tarim Basin)—all of which have been affected, to some ...
Russian culture through customs; Three cities (about the Islamic cities and celebrities of Greater Khorasan (story)), and more than one hundred scientific articles in Persian, English, Russian, Turkmen and Istanbul Turkish languages which have been published in the press inside/outside Iran. [24]