Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Transoxania and the neighbouring regions of Greater Khorasan and Khwarazm in Central Asia Transoxiana ( lit. ' Land beyond the Oxus ' , now called the Amu Darya ) is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to eastern Uzbekistan , western Tajikistan , parts of southern Kazakhstan , parts ...
The name Khorāsān (lit. "sunrise"; "east"; or "land of the rising sun") was originally given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sassanian period. [2] The old Iranian province of Khorasan roughly formed the western half of the historical Greater Khorasan, [7] a region which included parts that are today in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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
This page was last edited on 15 April 2011, at 21:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...
Khorasan — a geographic and historical region of Central Asia and the northeastern Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. Greater Khorasan is primarily located within present day northeastern Iran and western Afghanistan .
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 ...
Khwarazm (/ x w ə ˈ r æ z ə m /; Old Persian: Hwârazmiya; Persian: خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or Chorasmia (/ k ə ˈ r æ z m i ə /) is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by the Karakum Desert, and on the west by the Ustyurt Plateau.