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Khorasan

Khorasan 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.

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Khorasan is a historical region in West and Central Asia that spans parts of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and several Central Asian countries. It matters because it sits at a crossroads of major civilizations and has been an important area for trade, culture, and politics throughout history.

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Settlement.name: Khorasan
Settlement.native_name_lang: fa
Settlement.settlement_type: Region
Settlement.image_map: Khorasan-Transoxiana-Khwarazm nopaths.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Khorasan and neighbouring regions
Settlement.population_demonym: Khorasani
Settlement.subdivision_type: Countries in Khorasan
Settlement.subdivision_name: Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. Different regions of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are also included in different sources.
Settlement.demographics_type1: Ethnicities:
Settlement.demographics1_title1: Iranian and Khorasani people and including Tajiks, Kurds of Kermanj, Turks, Hazaras, Turkmen, Baluchis, Zoroastrians and Pashtuns
Settlement.image_map1: Transoxiana 8th century.svg

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Geography
History
Ancient era
Medieval era
Rashidun era (651–661)
Umayyad era (661–750)
Abbasid era (750–861)
Modern era
Cultural importance
See also
References
Sources
Further reading

The extent of the region referred to as Khorasan varied over time. In its stricter historical sense, it comprised the present territories of northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan and southern parts of Central Asia, extending as far as the Amu Darya (Oxus) river. However, the name has often been used in a loose sense to include a wider region that included most of Transoxiana (encompassing Bukhara and Samarqand in present-day Uzbekistan), extended westward to the Caspian coast and to the Dasht-e Kavir southward to Sistan, and eastward to the Pamir Mountains. Greater Khorasan is today sometimes used to distinguish the larger historical region from the former Khorasan Province of Iran (1906–2004), which roughly encompassed the western portion of the historical Greater Khorasan.