Back مقاطعة خراسان Arabic Xorasan ostanı Azerbaijani Хөрәсән Bashkir Харасан Byelorussian Хорасан Bulgarian Khorasan (província de l'Iran) Catalan پارێزگای خۆراسان CKB Хурасан CV Chorasan (Provinz) German Xorasan DIQ

Khorasan province

For the historical region, see Greater Khorasan. For the regional branch of the Islamic State, see Islamic State – Khorasan Province. For other uses, see Khorasan (disambiguation).
Khorasan Province
استان خراسان
Khurasan
Khorassan
Former province of Iran
Map of Iran with Khorasan highlighted
Location of Khorasan within Iran (pre-2004)
CountryIran
DissolvedSeptember 2004
Area
 • Total
299,231 km2 (115,534 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+03:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+04:30 (IRST)
Main language(s)Persian
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".[1] The name was first given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sasanian Empire[2] and was used from the Late Middle Ages in distinction to neighbouring Transoxiana.[3][4][5]

This province, whose people are mainly Shia Muslims,[6] roughly encompassed the western portion of the historical Greater Khorasan.[7] The modern boundaries of the Iranian province of Khorasan were formally defined in the late nineteenth century[2] and the province was divided into three separate administrative divisions in 2004.[8]

  1. ^ Compare Levant and Mashriq.
  2. ^ a b "Khorāsān". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  3. ^ Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.4
  4. ^ C. Edmund Bosworth, (2002), 'CENTRAL ASIA iv. In the Islamic Period up to the Mongols' Encyclopaedia Iranica (online)
  5. ^ C. Edmund Bosworth, (2011), 'MĀ WARĀʾ AL-NAHR' Encyclopaedia Iranica (online)
  6. ^ Khorasan tasnimnews Retrieved 1 September 2020
  7. ^ Dabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed. Tehran, Zavvâr: 1375 (Solar Hijri Calendar) 235–236
  8. ^ Online edition, Al-Jazeera Satellite Network. "Iran breaks up largest province". Archived from the original on 20 May 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2006.

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