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khorasan
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What does khorasan mean?
proper noun
- A former province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.
- Ellipsis of Daesh-Khorasan (“IS/ISIL/ISIS affiliate”).
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proper noun
- (historical) The Sassanian and post-Islamic Persian name for the region of Parthia located in north east of Persia (Iran), sometimes covering also parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan; the Greater Khorasan.
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And after, on this half, is the kingdom of Khorasan, that is a good land and a plenteous, without wine.