Lashar is a small village in the southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

The people of Lashar are Black Africans. It is said that these blacks were brought to the Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...

 by Portuguese

Portugal

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 slave traders as early as the sixteenth century, they are called Ahl-i Hava (Followers of the winds) and worship the winds. They are believed to be of Shangaan

Shangaan

The Tsonga people inhabit the southern coastal plain of Mozambique, parts of Zimbabwe and Swaziland, and the Limpopo Province of South Africa...

origin.