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Armenia's Kurdish population. The Kurds in Armenia (Armenian: Քրդերը Հայաստանում, romanized: K’rderë Hayastanum; Kurdish: Kurdên Ermenistanê Кӧрден Әрмәньстане), also referred to as the Kurds of Rewan [a] (Kurdên Rewanê), form a major part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and live mainly in the western parts ...
In 1969, the Armenian Academy of Sciences founded a Kurdish Studies Department to document and to research all aspects of Kurdish culture but also to study Armenian and Kurdish relations. [35] One of the first Kurdish newspapers was actually established and published in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan.
In 1948 and 1959, two documentaries were made concerning the Yezidi Kurds in Armenia. These were joint Armenian-Kurdish productions; with H. Koçaryan and Heciye Cindi teaming up for The Kurds of Soviet Armenia, [289] and Ereb Samilov and C. Jamharyan for Kurds of Armenia. [289]
Another Kurdish alphabet based on the Cyrillic script was created in 1945. [17] [16] From 1929 onwards, the amount of printed books in the Kurdish language increased rapidly in Armenia, and in 1932, a branch within "Armenian Authors' Union" was founded for Kurdish authors who were strongly influenced by Armenian and Russian literature.
Kurdish Lachin (Officially: English: The Kurdish Republic of Lachin; Kurdish (Kurmanji): Komara kurdî ya Laçînê) was a unofficial Republic which existed for one year during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, its Territory was the same as that of Kurdistan Uezd and the following Kurdistan Okrug. It was backed by Armenia, and when their support ...
The earliest medieval attestation of the toponym Kurdistan is found in a 12th-century Armenian historical text by Matteos Urhayeci. He described a battle near Amid and Siverek in 1062 as to have taken place in Kurdistan. [47] [48] The second record occurs in the prayer from the colophon of an Armenian manuscript of the Gospels, written in 1200 ...
Albania sent weapons to Kurdistan Region in 2014 in the fight against Islamic State. [3] Armenia: See Armenian–Kurdish relations. Armenia has a consulate general in the Kurdistan Regional's capital. [4] Austria: See Austria–Kurdistan Region relations. Austria has a commercial office in Erbil. [5] Kurdistan Region has a representation in ...
However, to deny the Kurdish identity in Armenia is a violation of international human rights obligations but yes, you are right. It is well known that throughout history, Kurdistan and the Kurds have been divided and that this is a special policy conducted by very powerful countries in the world to weaken us.