About Lorestan

Lorestān, also spelled Luristan, geographic and historic region, western Iran. Its name means Land of the Lurs and it extends from the Iraqi frontier and Kermānshāh and separates the Khūzestān lowland from interior uplands.

Extensive mountains stretch northwest–southeast; between the higher ranges are well-watered pockets with lush pastures. Oak forest covers the outer slopes, together with elm, maple, walnut, and almond trees. The Lurs are of aboriginal stock with strong Iranian and Arab admixtures, speak a Persian dialect, and are Shīʿite Muslims. Under the Pahlavis the Lurs were settled, and only a few retain their pastoral nomadism. Lorestān was inhabited by Iranian Indo-European peoples, including the Medes, c. 1000 bce. Cimmerians and Scythians intermittently ruled the region from about 700 to 625 bce. The Luristan Bronzes, noted for their eclectic array of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Iranian artistic motifs, date from this turbulent period. The bronzes were found mainly in tombs near Kermānshāh. Cyaxares, ruler of the Medes, drove out the Scythians in about 620 bce. Under Cyrus the Great, Lorestān was incorporated into the growing Achaemenid Empire in about 540 bce and successively was part of the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sāsānid dynasties.

Little Lorestān, the northern part, was governed by independent princes of the Khorshīdī dynasty, called atabegs, from 1155 to the beginning of the 17th century, when the last atabeg, Shāh Vardī Khān, was removed by the Ṣafavid ʿAbbās I the Great and government of the territory was given to the chief of a rival tribe, with the title of vālī; his descendants retained the title.

The southern part of Lorestān, or Great Lorestān, was independent under the Faḍlawayh (Fazlaveye) atabegs from 1160 until 1424; its capital was Idaj, now only mounds and ruins at Malamir (modern Izeh).

Lorestān proper stretches between the Dez valley (used by the Trans-Iranian Railway) and the Upper Karkheh River and northward toward Nehāvend. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy; crops include rice, wheat, barley, cotton, oilseeds, sugar beets, vegetables, and fruits. Industries produce cement, sugar, processed foods, carded wool, and ginned cotton. Iron ore and molybdenum are mined. Roads and railways link Khorramābād with Borūjerd and Alīgūdarz./ https://www.britannica.com/place/Lorestan

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The photos also show the life of turkmen women.

TURKMEN Persian Rugs Properties

Visibility: The TURKMEN tribe live in many sections of IRAN. All TURKMEN rugs and carpets have geometric patterns. The repeated “Gul” motif is the main indication of TURKMEN rugs.

Quality: The quality of TURKMEN rugs and carpets varies. Older rugs (pre-1945) are very good, but some of the newer rugs have lower KPSIs and are dyed with chemical rather than vegetable dye.

Size & Shapes: TURKMEN rugs come in different sizes, but the majority are small (2 x 3 to 4 x 6 feet). You can also find large rugs up to large mid-size (4 x 6 to 8 x 10 feet).

Color: Dark red is the dominant color in TURKMEN rugs and carpets. You rarely find blue backgrounds.

Texture: Soft wool; thin, tight pile.

Foundation: Warps are mostly cotton, wefts are wool.

Northern IRAN- TURKMENISTAN-Torkaman Sharah

The majority of the TURKMEN tribe of IRAN lives in the north and northeast sections of IRAN. Marco Polo said in the 13th century, “Here they make the most exquisite and beautiful rugs in the world.” The TURKMEN tribe has hand loomed rugs for many centuries.

Rug weaving is one of the oldest arts in TURKMENISTAN and the surrounding region. Archeological data places carpet making in the territory of TURKMENISTAN as early as the 6th century BCE.

The remains of a carpet found by archeologists in the 1940’s at Altai is two-thousand five hundred years old. It took centuries for these designs to develop, and the decoration of the carpets is extremely original, reflecting stylized articles from the world of nomadic livestock-breeders.

Ornaments are geometric, and a love of deep, rich red is an artistic tradition of the carpets.The art of carpet weaving passed from generation to generation, and today one can single out several types of Turkmen carpets, each having distinctive ornamentation.

TURKMEN are not only famous for their beautiful rugs, but also for their famous Akhal-teke horses. These horses originate from the Turkmen SAHARA (Desert) in northeastern IRAN and have been used as cavalry mounts and racehorses for thousands of years.

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The 11th edition of WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships kicked off in Burnaby of Canada on November 16 with participation of over 800 taekwondo fighters from 110 countries in the world. The competitions concluded on November 20 with South Korean boys and Iranian girls winning the championship title in the two male and female sections.

In regards to both male and female teams, South Korea claimed the first place while Iran, with the boys’ squad standing at the fourth, become vice champion. Russia stood at the third place in the international competition.

Iran’s female squad finished in first place with 55 points with two golds won by Mobina Nejad-Katesari and Zahra Pouresmaeil, as well as two bronze medals clenched by Mobina and Parisa Javadi.

The male Taekwondo fighters stood at the fourth place with 58 points by Amir Mohammad-Bakhshi’s gold, Ebrahim Safari’s silver, and Ali Baseri’s bronze medal.

The tournament brought together 846 young male and female taekwondo fighters from 110 countries, including Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cyprus, India, Iran, Mexico, Mongolia, the Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the United States.

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