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In her survey of the geographical and political meaning of the term Ḫorāsān, the Author notes its originally vague meaning (“the place where the sun rises”, whose borders are not precisely fixed by Persian-language medieval literature) and remarks the fact that only occasionally the Āmū Daryā represented a political border and even less often was an obstacle to the movements of invading armies. Instead of being divided in two by the river, the region was unified by the relationship between no..