Usually means: Ancient region, now northeastern Iran.
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  4. Khorasan (Islamist group), Khorasan (Province), Khorasan (disambiguation), Khorasan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Khorasan)

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.
noun:  A former province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.
noun:  (proscribed) Ellipsis of Daesh-Khorasan (“IS/ISIL/ISIS affiliate”). [(politics) An Islamic terrorist group located in Pakistan and Afghanistan affiliated with Daesh (“IS, ISIL, ISIS”)]

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