Kurdistan

Kurdistan ((listen) (help·info) "Laund o the Kurds";^[1] an aa umwhile spelled Curdistan;^[2][3] auncient name: Corduene^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}) is a roughly defined geo-cultural region whaurin the Kurdish fowk furm a prominent majority population,^[11] an Kurdish cultur, leid, an naitional identity hae historically been based.^[12] Contemporary uise o Kurdistan refers tae lairge pairts o eastren Turkey (Turkish Kurdistan), northren Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), northwastren Iran (Iranian Kurdistan) an northeastren Sirie (Wastren Kurdistan) inhabitit mainly bi Kurds.^[13] Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwastren Zagros an the eastren Taurus muntain ranges,^[14] an covers smaa portions o Armenie.

1. ↑ "Kurdistan". Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Retrieved 29 Julie 2010.
2. ↑ The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster—Page 511, Original from Oxford University—published 1830
3. ↑ An Account of the State of Roman-Catholick Religion, Sir Richard Steele, Published 1715
4. ↑ N. Maxoudian, Early Armenia as an Empire: The Career of Tigranes III, 95–55 BC, Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Vol. 39, Issue 2, April 1952 , pp. 156–163.
5. ↑ A.D. Lee, The Role of Hostages in Roman Diplomacy with Sasanian Persia, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 40, No. 3 (1991), pp. 366–374 (see p.371)
6. ↑ M. Sicker, The pre-Islamic Middle East, 231 pp., Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, (see p.181)
7. ↑ J. den Boeft, Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXIII, 299 pp., Bouma Publishers, 1998. (see p.44)
8. ↑ J. F. Matthews, Political life and culture in late Roman society, 304 pp., 1985
9. ↑ George Henry Townsend, A manual of dates: a dictionary of reference to the most important events in the history of mankind to be found in authentic records, 1116 pp., Warne, 1867. (see p.556)
10. ↑ F. Stark, Rome on the Euphrates: the story of a frontier, 481 pp., 1966. (see p.342)
11. ↑ Zaken, Mordechai (2007). Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival. Leiden, The Netherlands: BRILL. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9789004161900. Kurdistan was never a sovereign state, though the area with an ethnic and linguistic majority of Kurdish population is defined as Kurdistan. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |month= (help)
12. ↑ M. T. O'Shea, Trapped between the map and reality: geography and perceptions of Kurdistan , 258 pp., Routledge, 2004. (see p.77)
13. ↑ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2005.
14. ↑ Kurdistan^{[deid airtin]}, Britannica Concise.