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Kurdistan is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds.
- Encyclopædia Britannica: Kurdistan - traditional region, an extensive plateau and mountain area inhabited mainly by Kurds, including large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran and smaller parts of northern Syria and Armenia.
- Columbia Encyclopedia: Kurds - a non-Arab Middle Eastern minority population that inhabits the region known as Kurdistan, an extensive plateau and mountain area in SW Asia (c.74,000 sq mi/191,660 sq km), including parts of E Turkey, NE Iraq, and NW Iran and smaller sections of NE Syria and Armenia.
- Dictionary.com: Kurdistan - An extensive plateau region of southwest Asia. Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, it has been divided among southeast Turkey, northeast Iraq, and northwest Iran, with smaller sections in Syria and Armenia.
Subcategories
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
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- Iranian Kurdistan (10 C, 40 P)
- Iraqi Kurdistan (7 C, 20 P)
- Syrian Kurdistan (4 C, 5 P)
- Turkish Kurdistan (17 C, 32 P)
C
- Kurdish culture (18 C, 49 P)
E
- Events in Kurdistan (2 C)
F
- Films set in Kurdistan (10 P)
G
- Geography of Kurdistan (12 C, 9 P)
- Government of Kurdistan Region (7 P)
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- History of Kurdistan (16 C, 29 P)
K
- Kurdish people (23 C, 19 P)
L
- Languages of Kurdistan (2 C, 27 P)
M
- Massacres in Kurdistan (3 C)
O
- Kurdish organisations (7 C, 46 P)
P
- Politics of Kurdistan (12 C, 1 P)
R
- Religion in Kurdistan (4 C, 9 P)
S
- Sport in Kurdistan (2 C)
- Kurdish studies (1 C, 6 P)
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- Kurdistan stubs (3 C, 83 P)
Pages in category "Kurdistan"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.