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It is estimated that there are 15,000 Kurds in Nashville. [3] However, the US census does not take official data on the number of Kurds living in the United States. [5] In the 1990s, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) fingered Nashville as a center of resettlement and issued them federal funding to resettle the Kurds who came to Nashville. [6]
This is the largest population of Kurds in the United States. However, the U.S. Census data shows there are approximately 4,000 Kurds in Davidson County, and 5,000 in Tennessee, much lower than what Kurdish community officials estimate.
Nashville, Tennessee (cultural center) – around 20,000 in the city. [ 314 ] [ 315 ] [ 316 ] Santa Barbara, California - Ventura County, California region in Southern California – may have the most Kurds in the USA.
There is a Kurdish Department in the Yerevan State Institute of Oriental studies. The Kurds of Armenia were the first exiled country to have access to media such as radio, education and press in their native tongue [34] but many Kurds, from 1939 to 1959 were listed as the Azeri population or even as Armenians. [35]
This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could produce breakthroughs once thought unimaginable.
Following German settlement of that land, the authors write that as many as 80% of the Herero people, as well as 50% of the 20,000 Nama people and lesser numbers of other populations, lost their ...
Sunni Arabs have driven out at least 70,000 Kurds from the Mosul’s western half. [3] Nowadays, eastern Mosul is Kurdish and western Mosul is Sunni Arab. [4] 1.5 to 2 million Kurds were forcibly displaced by Arabization campaigns in Iraq between 1963 and 1987; [5] resulting in 10,000 to 100,000 deaths during the displacement. [5]
And this 2009 teen musical, featuring the then-16-year-old Cyrus as the titular character returning to her Tennessee roots, filmed many scenes in the Nashville area and Franklin.