Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and …

Kurdish history in the 20th century is marked by a rising sense of Kurdish nationhood focused on the goal of an independent Kurdistan as scheduled by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.

Jan 16, 2025 · Kurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, many Kurds hoped for …

Kurdistan Region (KRI) [c] is a semi-autonomous federal region [d] of the Republic of Iraq. [13] [14] It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, …

Oct 15, 2019 · Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group …

Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and …

Mar 3, 2023 · Map of Kurdish inhabited areas by the Council On Foreign Relations. Interactive version below.

Mountainous, in most of Kurdistan, most areas are very dry in the summer while cooling down, in the winter and spring. Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen, Arabs, Armenians, Shabaks and …

Jan 31, 2025 · Kurd, any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of …

Jun 28, 2018 · Throughout recent history, there has been a push for an independent nation-state for Kurdistan. The first-ever agreement between the existing governments and the Kurdish …