It is probable that while Elamites were established in the plainer portions, the Uxians who may have been the ancestral race of the later Bakhtiaris, held the mountainous territories1. One of the earliest mention of them is also by the Greeks who called them "Bakteris" which some speculate is derived from the Persian word of "Bakhtaris" meaning literally, People of the West. Bakhtiaris indeed dwelled in the Southwestern part of the country. Bakhtiaris occupy the mountain tract in South-West Persia lying roughly between longitudes 31 to 34 N and 48 40' to 51 E, bound on the south by the plains of Khuzistan and on the north by the districts of Chahar Mahal, Faridan, and Khonsar where the central Iranian Plateau blends into the great southern mountain range.
