Greater Khorasan (irn)

Greater Khorasan

Greater Khorasan ranks 2,165th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aktobe, Châlons-en-Champagne, and Vinnytsia. Memorable people born in Greater Khorasan include Ibn Khordadbeh, Jaʻfar ibn Yahya, and Sufyan al-Thawri. Memorable people who died in Greater Khorasan include Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr, and Khosrow III. Greater Khorasan has been the birth place of many politicians and geographers and the death place of many politicians and religious figures. Greater Khorasan is located in Iran.

Greater Khorāsān or Khorāsān or Khurāsān is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau between West and Central Asia that encompasses western Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Read more on Wikipedia