Khorāsān: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge Core - Cultural coherence of architecture in Greater Khorasan from Bactria to South Khorasan in Iran during the Late Iron Age/Achaemenid period. Aug 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge Core - Cultural coherence of architecture in Greater Khorasan from Bactria to South Khorasan in Iran during the Late Iron Age/Achaemenid period. Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: The Washington Post - The strange story behind the �Khorasan� group�s name. Nov 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Khorasan. Jul 31, 2024
Map added. Jul 20, 2023
Add new Web site: The History Files - Khorasan. Mar 22, 2023
Clarified that a number of Turkic and Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in Khorasan. Sep 01, 2021
Add new Web site: Academia - "The Importance of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Classical Islamic World,� in A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor, eds., Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation. (PDF). Nov 04, 2016
Corrected several chronological errors. Oct 21, 2015
Added mention that the modern Iranian province of Khorasan split into three smaller provinces in 2004. Jul 11, 2012
Add new Web site: The History Files - Khorasan. Apr 01, 2012
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Khurasan. Apr 01, 2012
Article revised and updated. Jan 03, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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