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Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), [5] or Greater Kurdistan, [6] [7] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population [8] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [9]
Kurdistan Region (KRI) [c] is a semi-autonomous federal region [d] of the Republic of Iraq. [13] [14] It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Duhok Governorate, and Halabja Governorate.
Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East (1992) Maunsell's map of 1910, a pre-World War I British ethnographical map of the Middle East, showing the Kurdish regions in yellow (both light and dark) Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds. [50]
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Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan [1] (Kurdish: باشووری کوردستان, romanized: Başûrê Kurdistanê) [2] [3] [4] refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of Greater Kurdistan in West Asia , which also includes parts of southeastern Turkey ( Northern Kurdistan ), northern ...
The Ottomans saw Kurdistan as an official region comprising settlements inhabited by Kurds, and included it many maps, although it was largely not an administrative division. [1] An Ottoman map printed in 1893, during the reign of Abdul Hamid II, showing the lands of the empire. On the map, "کردستان" (Kurdistan) correlates with the ...
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It was recognized as an official governorate of the Kurdistan Region in 2014, [3] [2] and the Council of Ministers approved a bill twice in 2013, [4] [5] and 2023. [6] However, the only legislature in Iraq that can implement new governorates is the Council of Representatives of Iraq, which has had delayed hearings regarding Halabja numerous times.