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  2. Kurds - Wikipedia

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    The first modern Kurdish nationalist movement emerged in 1880 with an uprising led by a Kurdish landowner and head of the powerful Shemdinan family, Sheik Ubeydullah, who demanded political autonomy or outright independence for Kurds as well as the recognition of a Kurdistan state without interference from Turkish or Persian authorities. [158]

  3. Barzani (tribe) - Wikipedia

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    The tekkeyeh became an asylum for the aggrieved local Kurdish tribes, assisting in strengthening the authority of the Barzani sheikhdom in the region and becoming the focal point of a claim for greater regional autonomy from what was at the time the Ottoman Empire. [5] [4] The tribe has many Jewish members as well. [6]

  4. Kurdish culture - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Kurdish food. Food is widely recognized to be a fundamental part of what it means to be Kurdish. Foods such as kfta کفتە (spiced minced meat cased in thin layer of mashed pudding rice), Ser u pe (goats head, tongue and feet), shifta (meat patties), [9] are traditional Kurdish foods. Lamb and chicken have been staple meats in ...

  5. Origin of the Kurds - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] [19] This view is supported by some recent academic sources which have considered Corduene as proto-Kurdish [20] or as equivalent to modern-day Kurdistan. [21] Some modern scholars, however, reject a Kurdish connection to the Carduchi. [22] [23] [24] There were numerous forms of this name, partly due to the difficulty of representing ...

  6. Jaff (tribe) - Wikipedia

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    Osman Pasha Jaff, (born 1846) a Kurdish king, leader of the Jaff tribe, and married to Adela Khanum of the old Ardalan tribe. [ 15 ] Adela Jaff (1847–1924), called Princess of the Brave by the British; married Kurdish King Osman Pasha Jaff, was famous for her role in the region, namely in the era of Shiekh Mahmood Al-Jaff Hafeed.

  7. Kurdish - Wikipedia

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    Kurdish may refer to: Kurds or Kurdish people; Kurdish language. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) Central Kurdish (Sorani) Southern Kurdish; Laki Kurdish; Kurdish alphabets;

  8. History of the Kurds - Wikipedia

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    The Kurdish King and his uncles ruled north Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Egypt for a short period. [S] [T] [159] Salah El Din in Syria, Ameer Sherko in Egypt and Ameer Adil in Jordan, with family members ruling most of the cities of today's Iraq. The Kurds built many monumental castles in the lands which they ruled, especially in what was called ...

  9. Aras Koyi - Wikipedia

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    His family was forced to leave Iraq in 1981 due to the political activities of his father, Fatih Rasul. His father Fatih was a Peshmerga who faced imprisonments, and ultimately, exile. [ 5 ] When he was a young boy, Koyi lived in Soviet Union , [ 6 ] where he continued his studies at Interdom in the city of Ivanovo .