Guzgan was the medieval term for a principality roughly centered on modern Gurziwan, Faryab Province

Faryab Province

Fāryāb is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Maymana. The majority of the population is Uzbek.-History:...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. Historically, Guzgan extended beyond the boundaries of modern Faryab and Jowzjan Province

Jowzjan Province

Jowzjān or Jōzjān or Jawzjan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Sheberghan.- Demographics :...

, as far as Sar-e Pol Province

Sar-e Pol Province

Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul , is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Sar-e-Pul Province is situated between the central highlands and the northern Turkmen plains. Sar-e-Pul borders Ghor and Baniyan provinces to the south, Faryab, Jawzjan and...

. The 10th century Hudud al-Alam refers to the local princes as vassals of the Samanid empire.

References to the city of Guzgan have been interpreted as referring to what is now Maimana.

Notable figures

• The unknown author of the Persian geography Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib
  Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib
  Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam , meaning The Limits of The World, is a tenth century geography book written in Persian by an unknown author from Jōzjān.- Contents :...