Larestan

Larestan was a realm of the local Miladian dynasty, centered on Lar in southern Fars. Its chiefs ruled Lar and the hot lowlands of Garmsirat; the founder Gorgin Milad claimed descent from the hero Kay Khosrow.

Lar remained an important staging post on the route to Hormuz through the sixteenth century, with a Jewish community recorded in 1523. A Safavid army annexed Larestan in 1602, and many families later crossed the Gulf to Arab ports.