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Khuzestan first enters recorded history as part of the [[Elamite Empire]]. It is then ruled, successively, by:

* [[538 BCEBC]] to [[331 BCEBC]] Persian [[Achmaenid]] dynasty

* [[305 BCEBC]] to [[60 BCEBC]] Hellenistic [[Seleucid]] dynasty

* [[60 BCEBC]] to AD [[224 CE]] [[Parthian]] empire

* [[224 CE]] to [[642]] Persian [[Sassanian]] dynasty

* [[642]] to [[1258]] [[Arab]] [[caliph]]s and their deputies

* [[1219]] to [[1335]] various [[Mongol]] invasions

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Dates may differ from usual dynastic dates; these are, as nearly as can be determined, the relevant dates for the area now known as Khuzestan.

Under the caliphs, Khuzestan was a rich and populous province, known for its culture and learning. It was depopulated and reduced to beggary by the savagery of the Mongol invasions of the 13th century CE. It did not begin to recover until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when commerce revived and oil was discovered.

According to the Encyclopedia Iranica, under the Safavids and the Qajars Khuzestan was known as Arabestan or Arabistan -- presumably because many of its then inhabitants spoke Arabic or were Arabs. However, the current Iranian government does not acknowledge that the province ever had such a name.