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Khuzistan

American  
[khoo-zi-stahn, koo-zuh-stan, -stahn] / ˌxu zɪˈstɑn, ˈku zəˌstæn, -ˌstɑn /
Or Khuzestan

noun

  1. a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Ahwaz.


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On the contrary, the initial Iraqi drive into Iran's Khuzistan province has long since bogged down, and Western military analysts now see the prospect of a protracted stalemate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last Monday evening thousands of Islamic Guards and volunteer troops, backed by several regular army divisions, swept across a flat plain toward Iraqi positions near the border of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forqhan has no apparent links to Black Wednesday, a group that demands greater autonomy for the 2 million Iranian Arabs of the Khuzistan region.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saddam has lost almost all the territory he won in the fall of 1980, when he started the war by invading Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province.

From Time Magazine Archive

It overtook him at Khuzistan, in Persia, on his journey to King Artachshashta.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin

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