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
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran or Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their enemy Nazi Germany, which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, but the Soviet Union delayed until May, citing "threats to Soviet security".
Soviet tankmen of the 6th Tank Division driving through Tabriz on their T-26, 28 August 1941
Soviet and Indian soldiers meet in late August.
Soviet and British soldiers rendezvous near Qazvin.
British supply convoy with Soviet escorts in Iran, September 1941