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Lashar
Lashar is the largest 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. See also *Afro Iranian References {{SistanBaluchestan-geo-stub African diaspora in the Middle East Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro-Iranians
Afro-Iranians ( fa, ایرانیان آفریقاییتبار) are Iranian people of African Zanj heritage. Most Afro-Iranians are concentrated in the coastal provinces of Persian Gulf such as Hormozagan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Bushehr and Khuzestan. History During the Achaemenid era, the District XVII of the empire were described to comprised "Paricanians and Asiatic Ethiopians". The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi-directional and changed over time. To meet the demand for menial labor, black slaves captured by Arab slave traders were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Arabia, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands and Ethiopia. Others came as immigrants throughout the centuries or from Portuguese slave traders who had conquered southern Iran. During Qajar rule, many wealthy households imported Black African women and children as slaves to perform domestic work alongside Eastern European Circassian slaves. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro Iranian
Afro-Iranians ( fa, ایرانیان آفریقاییتبار) are Iranian people of African Zanj heritage. Most Afro-Iranians are concentrated in the coastal provinces of Persian Gulf such as Hormozagan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Bushehr and Khuzestan. History During the Achaemenid era, the District XVII of the empire were described to comprised "Paricanians and Asiatic Ethiopians". The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi-directional and changed over time. To meet the demand for menial labor, black slaves captured by Arab slave traders were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Arabia, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands and Ethiopia. Others came as immigrants throughout the centuries or from Portuguese slave traders who had conquered southern Iran. During Qajar rule, many wealthy households imported Black African women and children as slaves to perform domestic work alongside Eastern European Circassian slaves. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Diaspora In The Middle East
African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethnic groups of Africa *** Demographics of Africa *** African diaspora ** African, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the African Union ** Citizenship of the African Union ** Demographics of Africa, Demographics of the African Union **Africanfuturism ** African art ** *** African jazz (other) ** African cuisine ** African culture ** African languages ** African music ** African Union ** African lion, a lion population in Africa Books and radio * The African (essay), ''The African'' (essay), a story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio * The African (Conton novel), ''The African'' (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton * The African (Courlander novel), ''The African'' (Courlander novel), a novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
