Makran

Makran, a coastal strip that the Makran Sea is named after is a coastal strip in the south of Balochistan, 2/3 in Iran amd 1/3 in Pakistan. Makran means close to the water.^[1] The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several mountain ranges. The coastline is 1,600 km, & a bit above 1100 km of that is in Iran, country where the Makranis/Baluch originate from.

According to the book "Documents on the Makran Gulf's name " & ENCYCLOPEDIA Iranika [1] Makran also Mekran and Mokrān historically in Baluch vast area from west of Hormuz strait to the Sind River, also the body of water in that region is called Macran Sea. The name Makrān has found a popular etymology in māhi-ḵᵛorān meaning close to the water.

On his way homewards from the Far East in 1290, Marco Polo (II, pp. 334-35) sailed along the Makrān coast, calling it KisMacoran (i.e. Tiz Makrān), considering it as independent and attributing to it a ruler of its own. In the early 14th century, Ebn Baṭṭuṭa (II, pp. 341-2) records that, after the death of the Il-Khanid sultan (i.e. after 736/1335), a certain Malek Dinār took power in Makrān. It was during these centuries that Makrān was colonized by Baluch nomads moving southeastwards from Persia, so that it is today mostly Baluch-speaking. The boundary between Persian Makrān and that part coming within the British Indian province of Baluchistan (the easternmost part forming the Native State of Las Bela) and after 1947 within Pakistan, was demarcated by an Anglo-Irani Boundary Commission in 1870-72.[2]