Khorasan Province
Also known as Khorassan Province, Khurasan Province
former province in Iran (…–2004)
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Khorasan Province was a large administrative region in northeastern Iran that existed until 2004, when it was divided into smaller provinces. It was historically significant as an important cultural and economic center in Iran, particularly along ancient trade routes.
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The domes of the Imam Reza shrine and the Goharshad Mosque, 1976, at Mashhad, a major city in the former Khorasan and now the capital of the Razavi Khorasan province Khorasan (Persian: استان خراسان [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ; also transcribed as Khurasan, Xorasan and Khorassan), also called Traxiane during Hellenistic and Parthian times, was a province in northeastern Iran until September 2004, when it was divided into three new provinces: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan.
Khorasan historically referred to a much larger area, comprising the east and the northeast of the Persian Empire. The name Khorāsān is Persian and means "where the sun arrives from". The name was first given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sasanian Empire and was used from the Late Middle Ages in distinction to neighbouring Transoxiana.