Some of the lands dominated by the ancient Persian dynasties yet carry Rostami (or Rostam) name as proclaimed the influencers of that region, village or district in the past however such regional influencers totally lost their authority after the fall of the Qajars and post World War modernization.[1]
^Katouzian, Homa (2006). State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis. The United States and Canada: I. B. Tauris. ISBN9781845112721.