Luristan

[ loor-uh-stahn, -stan ]

noun

1. a mountainous region in W Iran.

Example Sentences

For example, over the past five years, pet traders in Iran have been dipping into rivers in the Zagros Mountains to catch the Luristan newt, also known as the Kaiser’s spotted newt, which sells online for $150.

From The Verge

Researchers hope the study will inform conservation work for endangered species such as this Luristan newt from Iran.

From BBC

Few people fretted about the fate of the Singapore freshwater crab, Ethiopia's liben lark, the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat or the Luristan newt, found in only in the Zagros mountains in Iran, he warned.

From Scientific American

I have written little about my prospective journey because there has been a prolonged uncertainty about it, and even now I cannot give any definite account of the project, except that the route lies through an altogether mountainous region, in that part of the province of Luristan known in Persia colloquially as the "Bakhtiari country," from being inhabited by the Bakhtiari Lurs, chiefly nomads.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the Feili Lurs, the nomads of Luri-Kushak or the Lesser Luristan, the region lying between the Ab-i-Diz and the Assyrian plains, with the province of Kirmanshah to the north and Susiana to the south, little was seen.

From Project Gutenberg