Khuzestan province
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Khuzestan province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Located in the southwest of the country, the province borders Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers an area of 63,238 square kilometres (24,416 sq mi). Since 2014, it has been part of Iran's Region 4.
Image: Shush Castle Darafsh (25)
Image: Khuzestan DSCF6822 1778 (53261757899)
Image: Choqa Zanbil 2
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Qashqai people
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Qashqai people are a Turk tribal confederation in Iran. Almost all of them speak a Western Turkic (Oghuz) language known as the Qashqai language — which they call "Turkī" — as well as Persian in formal use. The Qashqai mainly live in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Bushehr and southern Isfahan, especially around the cities of Shiraz and Firuzabad in Fars.
Qashqai traditional market (top) Qashqai boy wearing a traditional hat (bottom)
Image: Caravane kachkai
Qashqai Confederation Kilim 19th Century. The multicoloured zigzag fields in an 'M' shape are unusual. These kilims have been used as tent dividers or to cover up storage sacks within a home, so a horizontal viewpoint might have been intended by the weaver.
The interior of a Qashqai tent