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great See also:nomad tribes of See also:Persia, whose camping-grounds are in the hilly See also:district, known as the Bakhtiari See also:province. This province extends from Chaharmahal (See also:west of See also:Isfahan) in the E., to near See also:Shushter in the W., and separated from Luristan in the N. by the See also:Dizful See also:river (Ab i Diz), and in the S touches See also:Behbahan and See also:Ram See also:Hormuz. The Bakhtiari are divided into the two great divisions Haft-See also:lang and Chahar-lang, and a number of branches and clans, and were known until the 15th See also:century as the " Great Lurs," the " Little Lurs " being the tribes settled in the district now known as Luristan, with See also:Khorremabad as See also:capital. According to popular tradition the Lurs originally came from See also:Syria in the loth century, but it is now held that they were in Persia See also:long, perhaps fifteen centuries, before. They speak the Lur See also:language, a See also:Persian See also:dialect. The Bakhtiari number about 38,000 or 40,000 families, under 200,000 souls, while the See also:area of the district occupied by them is about 25,000 sq. m. In the See also:middle of the rgth century they could put 20,000 well-equipped horsemen into the See also:field, but in consequence of See also:misrule and long-lasting feuds between the different branches, which the See also:government often fostered, or even instigated, the, district has become poor, and it would now be difficult to find 4000 horsemen. The province is under the See also:governor-See also:general of See also:Arabistan, and pays a yearly See also:tribute of about 45000. The chiefs of the Bakhtiari in 1897, having nbtained the shah's permission for improving the road between Shushter or See also:Ahvaz and Isfahan, an See also:iron suspension See also:bridge with a span of 120 ft. was erected over the See also:Karun river at Gudar i Bulutek;another, with a span of 7o ft., over the Bazuft river at Pul i Amarat; and a See also:stone bridge over the Karun at Do-pu-lan; For accounts of the Bakhtiari see Mrs See also:Bishop (See also:Isabella See also:Bird), Journeys in Persia and See also:Kurdistan (See also:London, 1893) ; C. de See also:Bode, Travels in Luristan (London, 1841) ; See also:Lord Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, vol. ii. 283—303 (London, 1892); See also:Sir H. See also:Layard, See also:Early Adventures in Persia (London, 1894). (A.

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