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LUP—LUR
LUPIIOR (LAPUI ?) ( 1 )— Lat. . ' Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 18 miles north of Shiraz. It produces wheat, barley
and vegetables.— [Pell//.)
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LUQBAIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
An island in the river Karun opposite the Luqbair tract. — ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer. 1908.)
LURDAGAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Luristan, on one of the branches of the Karun river.—
(Layard.)
LUR-I-BUZURG—
This term, like Lur-i-Kuchak, (q.v.) is now almost extinct. It was for
merly used to denote the country inhabited by Lurs beyond the boundaries
of Luristan, and includes in consequence the Bakhtiari country, and the
whole of Ears. It was never an administrative province, the Bakhtiari
Haft Lang in 1841 being under Burujird, the Kuhgalu under Behbehan,
and the Qashqai under the Governor General of Ears at Shiraz, who is now
in charge of both the last-named tribes, as Behbehan is within Ears.—
(Wilson, 1911.)
LUR-I-KOCHAK— "
This term, now obsolete, denotes the province of Luristan. It was for
merly divided into Gulak, which included 'Amleh and Bala Gariweh, and
Selewerzi, which included Dilfan and Silsileh, but these divisions are now
unknown.— (Wilson, 1911.)
LURISTAN—
Eorming one of its western boundaries with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , it shares
with Ardalan the distinction of being the most mountainous province of
Persia. Locally, the term Luristan has not the wide significance attached to
it by some geographers; and its use is restricted to indicate the territory
nominally under the administration of the Governor of Luristan. But as
such a description would place the region of Pusht-i-Kuh outside of its
limits, for the sake of convenience, as well as for the close ties which knit that
district to the Pish Kuh, it is preferable to consider the two regions as a
whole.
Boundaries.' —In this sense, therefore, its boundaries may be read as fol
lows :—On the north it marches with the province of Kirmanshah from
a point some 35 miles south of Khaniqln, more or less identical with the
34° of latitude, until it makes a bend south-eastwards to Hulilan and crosses
the Kara Su river. Thence it strikes north-eastwards along the left bank
of that river until its junction with the Gam Aslab, and works up the left
bank of the latter stream, until it strikes the rugged mountain range which
divides the district of Khava from the valley of Nihavand and later- that