Beautiful pictures of a wedding ceremony in the Bakhtiari tribe

Some scholars believe that the name is derived from "Baktrians" who were the Parthians living in North-East of Persia but this speculation has been refuted as to the unlikely geographical domain. Greek historians who have given accounts of Alexander's marches, refer to the inhabitants of the plain of Khuzistan and Susiana as Elymais or Elamites and describe an independent race of mountaineers called the Uxians.