Lashar is the largest village in the southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan in

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 Turkmeni ...

. Most of the people of Lashar are

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 an ...

, many of whom were taken to the south of Iran by Portuguese as well as Persian and Arab slave traders. Toup huts in Lashar village, Iran

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{{SistanBaluchestan-geo-stub African diaspora in the Middle East Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province

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