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The Sharafnameh of 1597 is the first account of Kurdish history. ... An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped off the map, representing the ...
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]
This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state, they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan" which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.) [1] [2]
Pira Delal; Tomb of the Prophet Hazkiel, Amadiya, Iraqi Kurdistan, The tomb is Considered holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews. [2]Lalish Temple, Located in Nineveh, Iraq, the temple is considered a sacred place of worship for the Yezidi Kurds, According to Historians and archaeologists The site and temple is believed to date back to approximately 4,000 years [3]
The following is a timeline of Kurdish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Kurdistan and its predecessor states and entities. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Kurds .
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]
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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