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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Lurs
- Ethnic group.image
- LuristanWomen.17Aug2016.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Lur women at the 2016 Luristan cultural week in Tehran, Iran
- Ethnic group.population
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- Ethnic group.languages
- Luri
- Ethnic group.religions
- Predominantly Shia Islam
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Iranian peoples
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Ancestry
- Name
- History
- Elam
- Achaemenids to Sassanids
- Luristan
- Branches
- Culture
- Religion and language
- Religion
- Language
- Relations to Kurds
- Genetics
- Diaspora
- Notable Lurs
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
thumb|Areas with a Lur majority.
The Lurs, Lors or Luris () are an Iranian people living in western and southern Iran. The four Luri branches are the Bakhtiari, Mamasani, Kohgiluyeh and Lur proper, who are principally linked by the Luri language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lurs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.