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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The hills beyond Isfahan have assumed lofty proportions, and some of the snowy mountains of Luristan are to be seen in the far distance.

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

Several of them he knew, as it happened, and they had delighted him with their wild yarns of surveying in Luristan.

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

He complained bitterly of the exactions of Persia, and added 79 the conjecture, expressed by many others, that England would shortly occupy Luristan, and give them equity and security.

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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