Basseri
Basseri handcrafts (Gompol and Jajim)
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| Total population | |
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| (72,000 ) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Fars Province | |
| Languages | |
| Persian | |
| Religion | |
| Shia islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bakhtiari |
The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars Province in Iran. They have formerly been part of the so-called Khamseh confederation which includes Persian- Turkic- and Arabic-speaking tribes. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that deals with the formal officers of the tribe, villagers, and other strangers. The Basseri economy stems mainly from sheep and goats.
Basseries are mostly Persians .Their origin is the "Pasargadean" tribe.The Pasargadean tribe was the biggest tribe of Persia and the tribe who helped Cyrus The Great constitute the Achaemenid Empire.They named "Karian" tribe in Sasanian Empire period.They were the relers of some parts of south Persia and the Karyan city of Persia cause They helped Ardashir I constitute the Sasanian empire.
After Muslim conquest of Persia They were under rule of Arabic Tribes of South Persia ,who migrated to Persia after its conquest, till the constitute of Zand Dynasty by Karim Khan.In Pahlavi Dynasty period They were settled by the government in 1930 and again started to decamp in 1941.After the Land Reformations of Iran ,they were settled in the cities and the villages of Fars Province; but after some years,They again started decamoing. after the Islamic Revolution of Iran because of the problems of being nomad including inaccessibility to modern facilities (hospitals,schools ,etc);successive droughts;destruction of the migration path;etc they again went to cities and the villages of the province for living.
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