Lashar

Lashar is a Largest village in the southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan in Iran.

Most of the people of Lashar are of African descent, many of whom were taken to the south of Iran by Portuguese as well as Arab slave traders.[1]

A village in Lashar
Entrance to a "toup", house of palm branches. Walls of these houses are covered with a mixture of straw and mud and their ceiling is covered by "daz" (fan palm) leaves.

See also
  • Afro Iranian

References
  1. "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.

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