Lar () is a city in the Central District of

Larestan County Larestan County () is in Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Lar. History Early history In the medieval ages, Laristan was ruled by the local Miladian dynasty, until it was removed by a Safavid invasion in 1602 led by Allahverd ...

, Fars province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Demographics

Ethnicity

Lar's inhabitants are

Larestani people Achomi/Achami people (, , Inscription Parsig: 𐭠𐭰𐭬𐭭𐭩𐭠), known by their self-designated pseudonym as ''Khodmooni'' (), commonly known as ''Laris'' (), ''Larestanis'' (), or ''Garmsiris'', are an Iranic sub ethnic group said to be ...

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 51,961 in 12,891 households. The following census in 2011 counted 65,451 people in 16,528 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 62,045 people in 18,578 households.

History

The city was originally called Lar after the person who had first established the city. ''Lar'' (لاڑ) is the name of one of

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couple ...

's famous heroes. Around the 16th and 17th centuries, Lar was considered to be a major stop along the road to the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a Mediterranean seas, mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.Un ...

when it was under the

Miladian dynasty The Miladian dynasty was a local Persian ( Laristani) Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled Laristan during the Medieval Ages. It traced its origins to ''Gorgin Milad'', a descendant of the cycle of the legendary Kayanid Kay Khosrow. It encompassed m ...

. In the early part of the 17th century,

migrated to

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in the

in significant numbers, migrating to

Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...

, the

UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a federal elective monarchy made up of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi serving as i ...

Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...

, and

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. Some have surname as "Lari" or "Al Lari" along with many other family and

tribal The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

names.

Climate

Lar has a

hot desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk'') is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert ...

(BWh).

Snowfall Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...

in Lar is a very rare event. It snowed in Lar in February 2017 for the first time in 50 years.

Civilization

Lar city is divided into two areas: * New City, called Shahr-e Jadid, * Old City, called Shahr-e Qadim. The New City, which was constructed after the historical

earthquake An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...

of 1960, now accommodates the main population and is considered to be modern in terms of

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and

transport engineering Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation to provide for the safe, ...

(e.g. dead-ends are very rare). The Old City contains the Bazaar of Qaisariye, a pre-

Safavid The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...

dynasty creation, that was proposed as a

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on August 9, 2007.

Transport

As the Department of Roads and Transport and some other centres are situated in city of Lar, an interesting aspect of it is building and construction of a modern expressway between the city of Lar and a police station 10 km from the city of

Gerash Gerash () is a city in the Central District of Gerash County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. History The people of Gerash were native Persians following the Zoroastrian faith before convertin ...

, but in the cost of cutting most spending from other town and villages' roads in the region and it costs human life in the road accidents in the regions which happens almost daily and have high fatality rates. The 6-lane expressway has been fully upgraded with high luminous lighting and high quality pavement to facilitate the transportation needs of people of Lar town but the cost is paid by cutting almost all other funds for repairs and making new roads in the area who are governed by Lar Road and Transport Department in Lar. Lar has an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

with daily flights to domestic and international destinations including

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

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, etc.

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References

External links

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