Zozan ( fa, زوزن; also Romanized as Zūzan and Rūzān) is a village in Jolgeh Zozan District, Khaf County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. 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 UNESCO World Heritage nomination.

Notable people

* Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, founding leader of the

Druze The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...

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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, ...

, Persian 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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* * * Populated places in Khaf County {{Khvaf-geo-stub