Zozan ( fa, زوزن; also

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d as Zūzan and Rūzān) is a village in

Jolgeh Zozan District Jolgeh Zozan District ( fa, بخش جلگه زوزن) is a district (bakhsh) in Khaf County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 18,928, in 4,062 families. The district has one city: Qasemabad. The district has ...

Khaf County Khaf County ( fa, شهرستان خواف, ''Šahrestâne Xvâf'') is located in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Khaf. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 108,964, in 23,896 households. Retrieved 28 O ...

, Razavi Khorasan Province,

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. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,183, in 479 families. Zozan was the site of an ancient city. The historical city of Zozan (Zawzan) is located at a distance of 41 kilometers to the historical city of Khargard and is like a rectangular onion. Its ancient castle stands in the southern side and the chief mosque- belonging to Khwarazmi period with two-balconied plan- stands in the western side of the city. This site is on the Iranian tentative list for

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World Heritage nomination.

Notable people

Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad Hamza ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ( ar, حمزة بن علي بن أحمد; 985 – c. 1021) was an 11th-century Ismaili missionary and founding leader of the Druze. He was born in Zozan in Greater Khorasan in Samanid-ruled Persia (modern Khaf, Raz ...

, founding leader of the

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Abu Sahl Zawzani Abu Sahl Muhammad ibn Husayn (or Hasan) Zawzani ( fa, ابوسهل محمد حسین زوزنی), better known as Abu Sahl Zawzani (; also spelled Zuzani), was a Persian statesman who served as the chief secretary of the Ghaznavids briefly in 1040, ...

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statesman who served as the chief secretary of the

Ghaznavids The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, Khorasan, much of Transoxiana and the northwest ...

briefly in 1040, and later from 1041 to an unknown date was from Zozan.

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