Neighbors

The Bakhtiari tribe is primarly located in the eastern part of the province or the eastern part of the Zagros Mountains. They inhabit Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari and eastern Khuzestan, Lorenstan and Isfahan. One tribe that was a neighbor of theirs was the Gutians, were a tribe from the northern and central ranges of the Zagros Mountains that overran southern Mesopotamia. Gutians as a barbarous, ravenous people from Gutium or Qutium in the mountains, presumably the central Zagros  east of Babylon and north of Elam. Gutium is also mentioned based in modern-day Kurdistan. Another neighbor of theirs is the Shahrazor, where they live on the foothills of the Zagros to Iraq. The plain extends from the foothills of the Zagros into today's Iraq from Sulaimaniyeh to Kirkuk. In Persian, shahr means city, land or region while zor means power, difficulty, generosity, and plenty. The Sassanian satrapy of Shahrazor would have included the modern Kurdish Iraqi provinces of Suleimania and Kirkuk, as well as eastern parts of the Diyala province. Shahrazor's links to Aryan history go back to the legendary times. Also, the Assyrians are neighbors that live close by to the Bakhtiari, living in the north- central Zagros mountains. The land of the Lullubi centered in today's Rania, Iraq and the upper reaches of the Shahrazor/ Shaarazor  plain. Another neighbor is the Zamua, which are located south of Lake Urmia between Urmia and present- day Sanandaj near the upper reaches of the Diyala river, as well as land of the Mehri. The core of the Zamua lands was centered around the the valley where the modern city of Sulaimaniyeh in Iraq is situated. These are just some of the neighbors that live along the Zagros Mountains and the outskirts. All of these neighbors have some or little connection with each other. Usually each tribe keeps to themselves unless for trades or other needs of services that other tribes can help and provide for others.