Khorramabad Lorestan Iran

The people of Loristan (whose precise ethnic origin remains unknown) employ smiths who make marvelous works in cast bronze, including bits and other horse trappings, weapons, religious totems, embossed shields and belts, and hosts of miniature animals.

The Kassites of the Zagros Mountains also periodically descend onto the plains of Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE.

The original homeland of the Kassites is obscure, but appears to have been located in the Zagros Mountains in Loristan in what is now modern Iran, although, like the Elamites, Gutians and Mannaeans, they are unrelated to the later Indo-European/Iranic Medes and Persians who will come to dominate the region a thousand years later.

They first appear in the annals of history in the eighteenth century BCE when they attack Babylonia in the ninth year of the reign of Samsu-iluna, the son of Hammurabi, who reigns from about 1749 BCE to about 1712 BCE.

Samsu-iluna repels them, as does Abi-Eshuh, his successor.

Alexander carries out a savage punitive expedition against the Cossaeans (Kassites) in the hills of Luristan in the winter of 324-323.

The Lors, or Lurs, a branch of Iranian people living mostly in southwestern Iran, are, like most Iranian people, a mixture of indigenous inhabitants of the Zagros Mountain and Iranian-speaking tribes migrating from Central Asia.

Lori language, which is closely related to Persian, has two distinct dialects: Lor-e-Bozorg (Greater Lor), which is spoken by the Bakhtiaris (mainly in Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari), parts of Lorestan, and parts of Isfahan; and Lor-e-Koochik (Lesser Lor), spoken by the Lors themselves (mainly in Lorestan.

The overwhelming majority of Lors are Shia Muslims.

In Khuzestan, Lor tribes are primarily concentrated in the northern part of the province, while in Ilam they are mainly in the southern region.

Hulagu, seeking to subjugate the Lors, easily destroys their resistance.

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