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Topic: Khorasan Province

	Provinces
		The province is bounded on the north by Azerbaijan Republic, Armenia and Turkey, on the west by Turkey and Iraq, on the south by Kurdistan, and on the east by East Azarbaijan and Zanjan province.
		The province of Lorestan is located between latitudes 32-37' to 34-22' N. and longitudes 46-51' to 50-03' E. It is bounded on the north by the Markazi province and Hamedan province, on the south by Khuzistan province, on the east by Isfahan province, and on the west by Kermanshah province and Ilam province.
		The province of Kerman is located between latitudes 26-24' to 32-22' N. and longitudes 53-40' to 59-35' E. It is bounded on the north by Khorasan province and Yazd province, on the south by Hormozgan province, on the east by Sistan va Balouchestan province, and on the west by Fars province.
	www.iranembassy.hu /province.htm (1685 words)

	Iran KHORASAN
		Khorasan province which is located in north-east of Iran, covering an area of 313,335 sq.km., is the largest province of the country and includes one fifth of the country’s area.
		The townships of this province are Esfarayen, Birjand, Taibad, Torbat-e-Jam, Torbat-e-Haydarieh, Chenaran, Khaf, Darega, Sabewar, Sarakhs, Shirvan, Tabas, Ferdows, Fariman, Ghayenat, Ghoocha, Kashmar, Gonaba, Meshed, Nahbandan, Neyshabour, Bardaskan and Bojnoord.
		The population of Khorasan province was 6,047,661 in 1994, of which 56.58% resided in urban areas and 43.36% in rural areas.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/city/KHORASAN.html (796 words)

	Handmade Iranian & Persian Rugs, Carpets, Kelim, Gabbeh Producing Company
		The limelight of carpet weaving in the Khorasan province, at the moment, are as follows: Mashhad, Birjand, Kashmar, Torbat jam and Torbat Headarieh (Balouch carpets of Khorasan), niyshabour, Sabzevar, Gonabad, and from northern part of Khorasan: Ghouchan, Sheervan and Bojnoord.
		In the old days Khorasan was covering a vast territory which later as the result of several devastating wars and numbers of incompetence rulers and governors had divided into several minor territories, which today some part of it belongs to the neighboring countries such as Afghanistan.
		Khorasan territory like many parts of Iran was violated by barbaric attacks of Mongolian Empire of the time and had undergone many changes in its history of existence.
	iranrugco.blogspot.com (668 words)

	Khorasan Province
		The townships of this province are Esfarayen, Birjand, Taibad, Torbat-e-Jam, Torbat-e-Haydarieh, Chenaran, Khaf, Daregaz, Sabzewar, SarakEs, Shirvan, Tabas, Ferdows, Fariman Ghayenat, Ghoochan, Kashmar, Gonabad, Meshed, Nabbandan, Neyshabour, Bardaskan and Bojnoord.
		After the death of Nader Shah Afshar (1791), Khorasan was occupied by Afghans and in Ghajar period, with supporting of Afghans for protection of Indian's borders, f~nally Paris Treaty was concluded (1903) and Iran was obliged to not interfere in Afghanestan's internal affairs.
		Khorasan province has encompassed numerous religious buildings and monuments of pilgrimage, including the Shrine of His Holiness Imam Reza and hundreds of mausoleums and Imamzadeh which attract so many pilgrimages and visitors to this province.
	iranmiras.ir /map/KRS.htm (653 words)

	August 99
		torbat-e jam, khorasan prov., aug. 31, irna -- the leader of the islamic revolution, ayatollah seyed-ali khamenei, said here tuesday that the co-existence of shia and sunni communities in iran is of the type that offers the muslim world a model for unity in diversity.
		nahbandan, khorasan prov., august 29, irna -- supreme leader of the islamic revolution ayatollah seyyed ali khamenei participated in the gathering of families of martyrs of nahbandan in northeastern province of khorasan upon his arrival in the city sunday morning.
		addressing the families of martyrs, war disabled and the self-sacrificers in birjand, khorasan province, he stated that the praise for the martyrs and their families was based on a strong ratiocination.
	www.islam-pure.de /imam/news/news1999/aug1999.htm (6784 words)

	Khorasan (English)
		The townships of this province are: Esfarayen, Birjand, Taibad, Torbat-e-Jam, Torbat-e-Heydarieh, Chenaran, Khaf, Daregaz, Shirvan, Tabas, Ferdows, Fariman Ghayenat, Ghoochan, Kashmar, Gonabad, Mashad, Nahbandan, Neyshabour, Bardaskan, and Bojnoord.
		Khorasan was conquered by kharazm-shahian, simultaneously, due to attacks of Mongols, it was annexed to the territories of Mongol Ilkhanan.
		Khorasan is, however, one of the flourishing provinces of Iran.
	www.farhangsara.com /khorasan.htm (381 words)

	Jozan: East Persian rugs, carpet weaving in Khorasan Province, Iran
		Currently, khorasan Province possesses an area of 313.000 square kilometer which is roughly one fifth of the entire Iran's territory, and is located in the Northeastern of country.
		Before the revolution and at the beginning of the reign of Shah Pahlavi, Khorasan's carpets and especially Mashhad's ones were among the best in the entire country and a good testimony to that are the carpets that decorated the museums' wall in Iran and the world.
		Khorasan carpets are famous for their vivid purplish red or vivid red background (Laky); the natural red color is obtained from a plant with red granule that is only grown in Khorasan region.
	www.jozan.net /2004/Khorasan_carpets.htm (1688 words)

	Khorasan
		of this province are: Esfarayen, Biriand, Taibad, Torbat-e-Jam, Torbat - e - Haydarieh, Chenaran, Khaf Shirvan, Tabas, Ferdows, Fariman Ghayenat, Ghoochan, Kashmar, Gonabad, Meshad, Nahbandan, Neyshabour, Bardaskan, and Bojnoord.
		Mashad is capital city of this province in which the Shrine of His Holiness Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Shi'ite, is situated.
		After the death of Nader Afshar (1791), Khorasan was occupied by Afghans and in Ghajar period, with supporting of Afghans for protection of Indian's borders, finally paris Treaty was concluded (1903).and Iran was obliged to not interfere in Afghanestan's internal affairs.
	hem.passagen.se /maddahi121/khorasan.htm (392 words)

	Jozan: Kurd tribes and Kurdish rugs in the Khorasan Province of Iran
		Kurdish tribes moved to Khorasan region during Safavian Dynasty and the reason for that was pour political.
		Bojnourd city covers an area of 935,114 square kilometers and is the main rout to connect the province to the northern part of Iran and its distance to the center of province is 244 kilometers.
		Ghochan with an area of 533,849 square kilometers is situated in the Khorasan province and from northeast is in vicinity with Darghaz city, from south the city of Nishabour and Esfaraien, from west the city of Shirvan and from east the city of Mashhad.
	www.jozan.net /2005/Kurdish-rugs.asp (1295 words)

	Cabinet agrees to divide Khorasan province into two parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mousavi Lari said that the Interior Ministry had asked the cabinet ministers to divide the province into three parts, but, the government did not accept the proposal on financial grounds and agreed to divide the province into two parts.
		The MPs had already challenged the Interior Ministry's plan to divide the province and said that the province with 600 km border with Afghanistan is exposed to sabotage of the armed bandits involved in drug trafficking along the border between Iran and Afghanistan.
		Khorasan province, which constitues one-fifth of the total area of the country, has a population of 6.5 million and 24 cities.
	www.payvand.com /news/00/dec/1079.html (219 words)

	Iran News - Cooperation contracts between Khorasan-Forah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Governor General of South Khorasan province said during the ceremony on the occasion of signing the contracts, "Iran has had strong ties with Afghanistan as of very old times and the process of that close bilateral cooperation still goes on."
		Governor General of Afghanistan's Forah Province arrived in Birjand on Saturday atop a delegation to survey the grounds for joint cooperation of the two chambers of commerce of Forah and South Khorasan.
		Afghanistan's Forah Province with its nine townships and 540,000 population shares 220 kilometers of borders with Islamic Republic of Iran's South Khorasan Province.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/?NewsCode=39132&...+Affairs (683 words)

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		Dizeh: In Bojnord city of Khorasan province of Iran, Dareh is called Dizeh.
		Dobol: A dialect of Dohol in Shushtar city of Khuzestan province of Iran.
		There is a kind of cylindrical drum in Baluchestan province of Iran.
	www.donbak.co.uk /Articles/EncyclopediaofPersianPercussionInstruments.htm (2428 words)

	Iran News - Iran's Khorasan province is rich in minerals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scarce precipitation and the desert-like terrain of Khorasan Province call for the need to establish mining industries in the region.
		Significant exploratory surveys have been conducted in the province, the result of which are indicative of various mineral deposits in particular, gold, copper, tin, tungsten and the rare gemstones like garnet mines in the region, he maintained.
		Located in the northwest of the country, South Khorasan is considered as one of the major mining regions of the nation, he said adding, preliminary studies in the province also prove the existence of iron resources in the area.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=45075&...+Affairs (341 words)

	Khorasan
		The temperature of the province increases from north to south, but annual precipitation decreases.
		In the year 652 AD., Arabs came to Iran and in this period residents of Khorasan adhered to Islam religion.
		Khorasan was conquered by Kharazmshahian, simultaneously, due to attacks of Mongols, it was annexed to the territories of Mongol Ilkhanan.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/province/Khorasan.html (649 words)

	Jozan: Carpet Industry in Kashmar, Khorasan Province, Iran
		In the past, the city of Kashmar was one of the important cities in Ghehestan (an old name for Khorasan Province of today) and the city was also called "Torshiz".
		Geographically speaking, Kashmar is situated in Khorasan Province, the largest province in Iran, and its distance from Tehran, the capital of Iran, is 926 kilometres with an altitude of 1,215 meters from the sea level.
		According to the historians, the master weaver brought the knowledge of carpet weaving from Kerman Province and probably his first work was ordered by Said Hussein Sajjadi, a native and resident of Froutagheh and a renowned carpet producer.
	www.jozan.net /2004/Kashmar-carpets-101104.htm (587 words)

	Iranian Provinces: North Khorasan
		he province of North Khorasan is in the north of Iran.
		It was a part of former province of Khorasan which in 2004 was divided in to three provinces of "North Korasan", "Razavi Khorasan" and "South Khorasan".
		Bojnord is the capital of province; Shirvan, Jajarm, Maneh and Samlaghan and Esfarayen are other cities of province.
	www.iranchamber.com /provinces/28_north_khorasan/28_north_khorasan.php (55 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"The administrative division of Khorasan Province was aimed at the elimination of deprivation, fair distribution of allocated resources, strengthening the infrastructures, and improving people's living standards," Khatami said.
		The frictions caused by these issues were noted in "Farhang-i Ashti" on 4 December, which reported that, according to the legislation, financing for the new provinces was supposed to be channeled through the original Khorasan Province's budget.
		Khatami also noted that unemployment in South Khorasan is higher than the national average, and he ascribed this to urban migration by inhabitants of areas affected by drought.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/12/6-SWA/swa-161204.asp (2324 words)

	Welfare Institutions and Services of the Astan Quds Razavi \|\| Imam Reza (A.S.) Network
		Establishing this seminary in one of the deprived areas of south of Khorasan is another constructional activities of the Astan Quds Razavi.
		Constructing cheap residential units in different regions of the holy city of Mashhad and Khorasan province, and ceding five thousand residential units to the deprived people in Razavi, Kinibist, Bildar and Maaloolin towns, and also ceding gratuituos lands to the needy are some of the other public charitable activities perfomed by the Astan Quds Razavi.
		This organization was established to eliminate deprivation from the southern region of Khorasan province.
	www.imamreza.net /eng/imamreza.php?id=1136 (1920 words)

	CHN \| News
		Archeological excavations and anthropological studies of this team in Afghanistan led to the discovery of a Buddhism temple in Nobahar village in Balkh province which was destroyed by Taliban.
		Because during these periods of time the local governor of Khorasan province had a tendency to Buddhism and minted the Buddha’s portrait on the coins,” explained Fahimi.
		The story of Ibrahim Adham’s life (Ibrahim Adham, a ninth century Sufi of Khorasan, was the Prince of Balkh who governed a large northeastern province in Persia) is very similar to the story of Buddha’s life.
	www.chnpress.com /news/?section=2&id=6226 (803 words)

	Kurds: historical migration to the Khorasan Province of Iran (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kurds: historical migration to the Khorasan Province of Iran (KurdishMedia.com)
		Kurds who are considered to be very determined and jingoistic people by nature did the job and pushed the warriors back to where they belong to and consequently the politic of Shah Safavi had worked to perfection by using Kurds in order to preserve the integrity of the country.
		Ghochan is a Kurdish city with an area of 533,849 square kilometres, situated in the Khorasan province and from northeast is in vicinity with Daregaz city, from south the city of Nishabour and Esfarayen, from west the city of Shirvan and from east the city of Mashhad.
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=10772 (663 words)

	Construction of Biggest Iranian Museum Will Kick Off Soon
		Chupankareh said that the museum will display the complete history and culture of Khorasan and all the works in other museums throughout the country will be collected there.
		On the antiquity of the artifacts on display, he said there are stones from "Kashf Rud" (river) which date to 800,000 to one million years.
		The museum could be regarded as the best place to introduce the history and culture of Khorasan.
	www.mehrnews.com /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=91311 (274 words)

	Iran Provinces
		According to Aljazeera, "Khorasan will be divided into Northern, Southern and Razavi Khorasan, with capitals in Bojnurd, Birjand and Mashhad respectively" when the Guardian Council has approved the measure.
		In 1900, the provinces of Iran were Ardelan, Azarbaijan, Baluchestan, Farsistan, Gilan, Irakajemi, Khorasan, Khoristan, Kerman, Larestan, Lorestan, and Mazandaran.
		The counties of Khorasan were distributed as follows: Bojnurd, Esfarayen, Jajarm, Maneh and Samalqan, and Shirvan to North Khorasan; Bardeskan, Chenaran, Darrehgaz, Fariman, Ferdows, Gonabad, Kalat, Kashmar, Khaf, Mashhad, Neyshabur, Qayenat, Quchan, Rashtkhar, Sabzevar, Sarakhs, Taybad, Torbat-e-Heydariyeh, and Torbat-e-Jam to Razavi Khorasan; and Birjand, Nehbandan, and Sarbisheh to South Khorasan.
	www.statoids.com /uir.html (1212 words)

	Using GIS to monitor drought based on Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) for Khorasan Province of Iran
		Because of the vast impact of drought, it is essential to be monitored timely and spatially.
		We then concluded that Kriging method is suitable for this analysis this method was used for zoning drought over Khorasan province and produced zoning map of drought severity for different time scales.
		The study showed that the duration and severity of drought is more in the sought area than in the central and northern parts of the province.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/natural_hazards/drought/ma03014abs.htm (277 words)

	Iran’s South Khorasan produces 21% of world’s saffron - Iran Defence Forum
		Iran produces about 180 tons of saffron per annum and 85 percent of the figure is exported to other nations, noted Saturday, chairman of the Rural Cooperatives’ Organization of South Khorasan Province.
		He also pointed to the establishment of four agricultural and horticultural cooperative companies in this northeastern province of the nation and said that the cooperatives are in charge of the affairs regarding saffron from production to its sale.
		He also commented on the establishment of modern saffron laboratories and packaging factories in the cities of the province and said that the measures would contribute to the production of high quality produce and promote its exports across the world.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?t=2105 (246 words)

	Iran Daily - Arts & Culture - 01/07/06
		He pointed out, “The large province of Khorasan and Transoxania is the cradle of ancient Iranian culture and civilization and the history of music in the region can be traced back to ancient times.
		Pour-Javadi said that the large Khorasan province and Transoxania was the venue of interaction between Islamic Iran and music from other cultures in Asia and the South.
		Naeimaei said that Khorasan province’s music is very significant because it conveys the history of Islam and Iran.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2470/html/art.htm (1364 words)

	Economic news in brief (April 27)
		BIRJAND – The use of processing industry in the agriculture sector of South Khorasan Province should be developed into a satisfactory level, said head of the Agricultural Jihad Organization of this province.
		Currently, about 30 percent of the agro output of this eastern province is decayed as a result of lacking a promising processing industry.
		According to the international definition, each year, 1%, at the very least, of the proven mineral reserves in every country should be extracted, while the amount reaches about 0.27% in Iran.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=176717 (560 words)

	Police seize 96.7 kg of opium in south Khorasan province - Irna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Police seize 96.7 kg of opium in south Khorasan province
		Deputy Police Commander of South Khorasan province said over 96.7 kg of opium were seized Saturday.
		The figure is 139 percent higher compared to drug seizures in the same period last year.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/line-16/0606034401232058.htm (289 words)

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