Khorashad ( fa, خراشاد, also

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d as Khorāshād, Kharashad, and Khorshād) is a village in Baqeran Rural District, in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Khorashad is known for its beautiful nature, its notable people and its handicraft. Traditional drapery of Khorashad, called tobafi in local language, is one of the most important handicrafts of southern khorasan. It was registered with the registration number 1319 on 26 December 2016 as a spiritual heritage of the country. The World Crafts Council is considering registering Tobafi, which is one of the major handicraft skills and traditional arts of South Khorasan province in Iran. Drapery in Khorashad
/ref> Iranian art of Tobafi
/ref> The historic name "khorashad" derives from the

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language word meaning "Sun". Khorashad is southeast of

Birjand Birjand ( fa, بیرجند , also Romanized as Bīrjand and Birdjand) is the capital of the Iranian province of South Khorasan. The city is known for its saffron, barberry, jujube, and handmade carpet exports. Birjand had a population of 187,0 ...

in east of Iran. The village is above sea level. It situated in the Khorashad Valley in Bagheran Mountain Range. It has cold winters and cool summers. At the 2006 census, its population was 757, in 232 families. The people of Khorashad are

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and local language contains many words from the ancient

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and

languages. Khorashad is the birthplace of the notables such as: Dr. Mohammad Ismail Rezvani (A professor of

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

in Iran), Dr.

Mohammad Reza Hafeznia Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (born 1955, Birjand, Iran) is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990. He has published 13 books on ...

(Professor of

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), Mr. Morteza Hassanpour (The first man in nursing in Iran), Dr. Ghazanfar Forouzanfar (Director of City Council of

), Dr. Homayun Hadavinia (The Professor of Kingston University), Dr. M. Khorashadizadeh (Director of Birjand University of Applied Science and Technology), and more than 60 professors and physicians in universities of

, the United States, and England.

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Khorashad
{{Birjand County Populated places in Birjand County