Lurs (also Lors, Lurish: لوریا and لُرو; Persian: لُرها) are mountain nomande people living mainly in western and south-western Iran, Irak and Kuwait. Their population is estimated at around five million. They occupy Lorestan, Kohkiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan and Fars (especially Lamerd, Mamasani and Rostam), Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Hamadan, Ilam, and Isfahan provinces, the south-east of Iraq and Kuwait. The Lur/Lor people mostly speak the Lurish language (sometimes called "Luri"), a Southwestern Iranian language related to Farsi. The Lurish language is the closest living language to Archaic and Middle Persian. The Lur/Lor people are related to the Kurds and the Qashqai but they began to be distinguished from the Kurds around 1,000 years ago. In Arabic speaking Iraq the Lors/Lurs are also known as Feylis.
Lurs are the demographic majority of the Iranian provinces of Kohkiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Ilam, Lorestan, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. Half of Khuzestan's population is Lur and 30% of Bushehr's population is Lur.
Like in the Kurish people Lur/Lor women have always had more freedom than in the Persian or Arab people.
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