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Bakhtiyari Dances
Bakhtiari Dances Known to stem from Lurs and named Great Lur after the 4th century Hejira (Iran's Central Tribes, Javad Safinejad, P.IO3), Bakhtiaris are one of the most ancient tribes and nomads in Iran. Herodotus supposed them to be the earliest Iranian ancestry who, within the 6th and 7th centuries B.C, dwelled at the foot of Bakhtiari mountains, east of Shushtar, and on the two sides of karun river and then mingled with Elamites, the other natives of the land (An Introduction to the Knowledge of Tribes, Iraj Afshar Sistani, P.454). Today, Bakhtiaris' territory encompasses the province of Charmahal Bakhtiari together with parts of Isfahan, Lurestan, Kohkiluye Boyer Ahmedi, Fars, and Khuzistan provinces (Iran's Comprehensive Geography, Rabi' Badi'i, Vol. I , P.77; Fundamentals of the Sociology of Tribes, Heshmatollah Tayyebi, P.321); and their language has its roots in Pahlavi that itself, due to the geographical circumstances of its territory, for long remained intact (Iran's Comprehensive Geography, Vol. I, P.76; An Introduction to the Knowledge of Tribes, P.489). The name Bakhtiari was stated in the historical source books of the 8th century Hejira (The Selected History, Hamdoll3h Mostowfi, P.541); and some have considered it to be a combination of "Bakht" and "Yar" [these two words denote "fortune" and "friend" respectively] with reference to Bakhtiaris' help to Safuvids in the achievement of victory in war, while others believe it to have originated from Bachteria (Greek) or Bakhtarian (Westerners) (History of Bakhtiari, Sardar As'ad Bakhtiari, P.5; Bukhtiari Dictionary, Abdol'ali Khosravi, P.62; An Introduction to the Knowledge of Tribes...) or from the name of the tribe Bakhtiarvand (HistolY and Geography of KhltZistan, Mohammad-Ali Emam- Shushtari, P.173). Probably, after Safavid era, this tribe was parted into two groups of Haft leng (Durki, Behdadvand, Dinarani, Bab babadi, Se Dehestani, Janaki; all have a summer territory, south of the area, with greater population and rather more poverty-stricken) and Chahar leng (Mohammad Salehi, Moguyi, Kondolru, Meymund, Zolaki; with a summer territory, north of the area, with less population and rather more wealthy). Here, "Leng" denotes the "mare's limb" a!1d also a "tax unit", and plus relates to the four and seven leaders son of Bakhtiaris by a couple from two distinct territories (Tribe of Lurs, Sekandar Amanollahi Baharvand, P .185) or comes from Avestan, meaning "river" (Bakhtiaris' Music and Songs, Kazem Pure, footnote, P.16).
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