[4][5][1] The Zand tribe is originally from the Khanaqin area and settled in Malayer near Hamadan.
[3][6] Incorporated into the army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah (r. 1736-1747), they were moved to Khorasan.
[6] The Zands and other tribes of the Zagros Mountains managed to return home following Nader's assassination in 1747.
[7] The Zands are a branch of the Laks, a people who are academically classified as Kurds.
[10] Frye, likewise, states that the Zand tribe "spoke the Lakk dialect of the Lur language".