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Luristan

American  
[loor-uh-stahn, -stan] / ˌlʊər əˈstɑn, -ˈstæn /

noun

  1. a mountainous region in W Iran.


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Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin archeologist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ripping out a brace of terse orders, the King of Kings dynamically prepared to lead an army into Luristan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Hākim has telegraphed for troops, and the governor of Luristan is said to be coming with 500 men.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

M. de Morgan gives a report upon his mission in Persia and Luristan, of which the following are a few extracts.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

Or were they magicians, spying into the future and laying a spell upon the people of Luristan?

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

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