Lorestan

استان لرستان Lorestan
Location of the Lorestan Province in Iran
Basic data
Country	Iran
Capital	Khorramabad
surface	28,294 km²
Residents	1,760,649 (2016 census)
density	62 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	IR-20

Coordinates: 33 ° 31 '  N , 48 ° 27'  E

Lorestan (also Luristan , Persian استان لرستان, 'Land of the Lurs ') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran and is located in the southwest of the Zagros Mountains . The capital is Khorramabad , which is also home to the Sassanid Falak-ol-Aflak castle . 1,760,649 people (2016 census) live on 28,294 square kilometers, which corresponds to a population density of 62 inhabitants per square kilometer. The larger cities are Aligudarz , Azna , Borudscherd , Khorramabad, Delfan , Dorud , Kuhdascht , Pol-e Dochtar and Selseleh . The local population is the Lurs people .

geography

location

Daribagh-Sad

Falak-ol-Aflak

Lorestan is 640 km long in the northwest-southeast extension and between 160 and 180 km wide. The area is very mountainous. The Zagros stretches from northwest to southeast across Lorestan. The highest peak is the Oschtoran Kuh at 4050  m and the lowest valleys are at 500  m .

Important rivers of Iran have their source here in the mountains: the Zayandeh Rud , Dscharahi , Karun , Dix , Abi and the Karkheh. There are many fertile fields and hills. The climate is a humid continental climate.

Administrative division

Lorestan is divided into nine districts:

• Alashtar
• Aligudarz
• Azna
• Borudscherd
• Khorramabad
• Dorud
• Turn
• Cow smack
• Nurabad
• Pol-e wick

climate

In Khorramabad there is an average of 530 mm of precipitation per year and in the mountains up to 1270 mm. The months June to September are quite dry. Temperatures are between 12 and 32 ° C in Khorramabad in summer and between −2 and 8 ° C in winter.

history

Lorestan is one of the oldest regions of Iran and is larger than today's Lorestan Province. There have been here since the 3rd and 4th millennium BC BC settlements. The region was first under the rule of the Sumerians , then the Elamites , until the Persians around 600 BC. BC immigrated here. Lorestan then belonged to the Persian empires of the Achaemenids , the Parthians and the Sassanids .

In 660 AD the Arabs conquered this region and later it came back under the rule of the Persians. Most of the current residents of the province are Lurs who are believed to have immigrated from the Caspian Sea area . Bakhtiars and Kurds also live here. From 12. to 15./16. In the 19th century, the Kurdish Atabegs of Luristan ruled here .

Personalities

• Hossein Borudscherdi (1875–1961), Shiite clergyman
• Mehdi Karrubi (* 1937), politician and Shiite cleric
• Nasrollah Kasraian (* 1944), photographer

Web links

Commons : Lorestan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on population distribution ( Memento from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Lorestan Portal ( Memento from July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Lorestan Province Cultural Heritage Organization ( Memento from December 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Lorestan.org information portal ( Memento of March 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Music from Lorestan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iran - Lorestan. citypopulation.de