According to it, Central Asia includes Mongolia, Tibet, northeast Iran ( Golestan, North Khorasan and Razavi provinces ), Afghanistan, Northern Areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( also called N. W. F. P.

By 1751, Ahmad Shah Durrani and his Afghan army conquered the entire present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Khorasan and Kohistan provinces of Iran, along with Delhi in India.

All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers, and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity ... Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe .</ BLOCKQUOTE >

The provinces of Iran are further subdivided into counties called shahrestan (), an area inside an ostan, and consisting of a city centre, a few bakhsh (), and many villages around them.

The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Greater Iran ( Iran and Iraq ) which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Italy ( Sicily ), Uzbekistan, Afghanistan ( especially in the provinces of Samangan and Badghis ), and the United States, specifically in California.

When Ptolemy returned to Egypt, Seleucus recovered Northern Syria and the nearer provinces of Iran.

Iran is subdivided into thirty one provinces ( Persian: استان Ostān ), each governed from a local center, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital ( Persian: Markaz ) of that province.

Today's Georgia was a subject to the Safavid empire in 17th century and Shah Abbas I relocated communities of Christian, Muslim, and Georgian Jews as part of his programs to develop industrial economy, strengthen the military and populate newly built towns in various places in Iran including the provinces of Isfahan and Mazandaran.

The first compact Georgian settlements appeared in Iran in the 1610s when Shah Abbas I relocated thousands from their historical homeland, eastern Georgian provinces of Kakheti and Kartli.

The concession stipulated that William D ' Arcy would have the oil rights to the entire country except for five provinces in Northern Iran.

Tehran Province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

Hyrcania was the name of a satrapy located in the territories of the present day Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces of Iran and part of Turkmenistan, lands south of the Caspian Sea.

In 1935, the Iranian ruler issued a letter to the League of Nations insisting the name Iran ( the historical name of the nation dating back thousands of years ) be used instead of Persia ( Pars ), which is the name of one of Iran's significant cultural provinces and the national language ( Parsi / Farsi ).

* Central Asia: The European lynx is native to the Chinese provinces of Sinkiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, as well as to Iran, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,

In the eastern Mediterranean provinces, the lucrative trade in textiles between Iran and Europe helped revive the economy.

* Azeri separatists in Iran want to re-unite the provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Zanjan and Ardabil with Azerbaijan.

The poetry is typically about divine love and is most often linked to Sufi Islam. Mugam created in ancient Iran territory and developed in Azerbaijan republic and Iran Azerbaijan provinces since Safavid ( The most branch of mugam which called by bayat ( like bayat-e-kurd, bayate-shiraz, bayat-e-turk ...) created by an Azerbaijani tradition ( Bayat which have music talents ) in different provinces of Iran like kurdisatn, shiraz, isfahan.

The most of royal musicians in palaces of ancient Iran kings in provinces were Bayat and there is no relation between Persian and mugam because of different morality and life philosophy between Persians and ancient Iran traditions.

In 1875, the Herzegovinian rebellion was the beginning of further unrest in the Balkan provinces.

For administrative purposes, Gabon is divided into nine provinces, which are further divided into 36 prefectures and eight separate subprefectures.

Around the year 197, Rome divided Britannia into two provinces, Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior ; sometime after 305, Britannia was further divided, and made into an imperial diocese.

Constantius arrived in London to receive the victory and chose to divide the province further, into four provinces ( each with its own governor ):

Iraq is divided into 18 provinces, which are further divided into districts:

Regions are further divided in provinces.

Unlike other Polish provinces, especially Silesia, Lesser Poland did not undergo further fragmentation, and in early 14th century became the core of the reunited nation ( together with Greater Poland ).

The island group is divided into six regions, which are further subdivided into 26 provinces.

New Caledonia is further divided into 33 municipalities: One commune, Poya, is divided between two provinces.

This territorial difference of law was complicated further by the adjustment of the former boundary among contiguous provinces with respect to road access and language groups.

Thailand's regions are further politically divided into a total of 77 provinces, such as Ratchaburi, Petchaburi etc.

Trying to achieve further aims, Theodoric frequently ravaged the provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire, eventually threatening Constantinople itself.

Added to that, the common black-and-white dairy cow had been bred in the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Friesland, then introduced to the North American colony of New Amsterdam ( in the mid-1600s ) further strengthening the association of cheese with the Dutch.

Sometime before 300 AD, Diocletian further divided Thracia into four smaller provinces.

Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).

The hopes Gustav had carried of winning further provinces ( Gotland and Blekinge ) were however scuttled.

Since Diocletian's Tetrarchy ( 296 ), it was the major province of a diocese confusingly called Galliae (' the Gaul s '), to which further only the Helvetic, Belgian ( both also Celtic ) and German provinces belonged ; with the dioceses of Viennensis ( the southern provinces of Gaul ), Britanniae ( also Celtic ) and Hispaniae ( the whole Celtiberian peninsula ) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor.

This is further covered by Article 132: the standard organisation of provinces and municipalities and the composition and competence of their administrative organs is regulated by formal law ( Subarticle 1 ); how they are controlled is regulated by law ( Subarticle 2 ); their decisions shall only be subject to prior supervision in cases determined by law or by force of law ( Subarticle 3 ); their decisions shall only be quashed by Royal Decree and on grounds that they violate the law ( in the broadest sense: the recht ) or conflict with the public interest ( Subarticle 4 ).

Romanos captured Hierapolis which he fortified to provide protection against further incursions into the south-eastern provinces of the empire.

Since emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform ( 293 ), the country was further divided in three provinces, as the small, easternmost region Sitifensis was split off from Mauretania Caesariensis.

The provinces were further divided into districts ( more than 100 districts in the empire ) and each district or main city had its own Governor, Chief judge and Amil ( tax collector ).

It starts by describing Æthelbald as " king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are called by the general name South English "; in the witness list he is further named " Rex Britanniae ", " King of Britain ".

Knowing that the mission was not allowed to make any concessions on the point of religion and the territorial integrity of the provinces themselves ( the southern fortress cities of Breda ,'s-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were in the Generality Lands ) Louis demanded — besides twenty million guilders and an annual embassy from the States-General to Louis asking pardon for their perfidy — either religious freedom for the Catholics or lordship over Utrecht and Guelders, merely to humiliate the Dutch a bit further.