Lashar (Persian: لاشار) is a small village in the southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan in Iran.

Most of the people of Lashar are Afro-Iranians, many of whom were taken to the south of Iran by Portuguese as well as Persian and 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.

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References

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

26°40′N 60°15′E / 26.667°N 60.250°E / 26.667; 60.250

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