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  2. Greater Khorasan - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Khorasan province - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Transoxiana - Wikipedia

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    An excerpt from a dynastic history commissioned by Eltüzer Khan of Khwarazm: "Oghuz Khan, who could speak at the age of one and whose first word was "Allah." He rebelled against his father, eventually slaying him, before embarking on a series of conquests that brought Islam to all of "Transoxiana and Turkestan."

  5. Greater Khurasan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Khwarazmian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Khwarazmian Empire [note 2] (English: / k w ə ˈ r æ z m i ən /), [10] or simply Khwarazm, [note 3] was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin. [11] [12] Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1077 to 1231; first as vassals of the Seljuk Empire [13] and the Qara Khitai (Western Liao dynasty), [14] and from ...

  7. Category:History of Khorasan - Wikipedia

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    History of Khorasan — a geographic and historical region of southern Central Asia and the northeastern Iranian Plateau of Western Asia.; Greater Khorasan historically & traditionally comprised the cities of Balkh, Herat, and Taloqan (Afghanistan); Mashhad, Nishapur, and Sabzevar (Iran); Merv and Nisa (Turkmenistan); and Samarqand and Bukhara (Uzbekistan).

  8. Category:Khorasan - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Category:Medieval Khorasan - Wikipedia

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    Medieval history of Khorasan — Greater Khorasan is a geographic and historical region of southern Central Asia and the northeastern Iranian Plateau of Western Asia.; Khorasan historically comprised the cities of Balkh, Herat, and Taloqan (Afghanistan); Mashhad, Nishapur, and Sabzevar (Iran); Merv and Nisa (Turkmenistan); and Samarqand and Bukhara (Uzbekistan).