Lar, Iran
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Lar لار |
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| Coordinates: 27°40′52″N 54°20′25″E / 27.68111°N 54.34028°ECoordinates: 27°40′52″N 54°20′25″E / 27.68111°N 54.34028°E | |
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 Iran
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| Province | Fars |
| County | Larestan |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,000 km2 (2,000 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 55,265 |
| • Density | 11/km2 (29/sq mi) |
| Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
| Area code(s) | 0781 |
Lar (Persian: لار, also Romanized as Lār; also known as Larestan) is a city in and the capital of Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 55,265, in 6,891 families. Lar's inhabitants are Larestani people.
The city was originally called Lad after the person who had first established the city. Lad (لاڑ) is the name of one of Shahnameh's famous heroes. Around 16th and 17th centuries, Lar was considered to be a major stop along the road to the Persian Gulf.
Larestani people migrated to Arab states in the Persian Gulf, such as the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait in the 1600s. They have surname as "Lari".
The outstanding specification of Larestan county, is the people's dialect. The vocabulary of the Achomi or Ajami dialect holds many words in common with Persian, however the syntax is considerably different from the current Persian language. Some believe that the Achomee dialect is in fact derived from an older dialect that survived through the impact of Arabic on old Persian language.
Achomee language is derived from the medieval Iranian language Pahlavi, the language of Sassanid Persia, which is also a precursor to Modern Persian and all other existing dialects included in the southwest branch of the Iranian language group.
The name Pahlavi was applied to a number of different dialects spoken in a rather vast area from Ctesiphon in modern-day Iraq to the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. The area corresponds to the greater Pars province. Please see more information about Pahlavi by searching the following phrase: [ The term 'Pahlavi,' in its widest extent, is applied to all the varying forms of the medieval Persian language, from the time when the grammatical inflexions of ancient Persian were dropped, till the period when the modern alphabet was invented, and the language became corrupted into modern Persian by the adoption of numerous Arabic words and phrases.]
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