Kurds - Wikipedia
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic [36] ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in West Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. [37] .
Kurd | History, Culture, & Language | Britannica
5 days ago · 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 northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other, adjacent areas.
Who are the Kurds? - BBC News
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 in the Middle East, but...
History of the Kurds - Wikipedia
Kurdish is a language of the Northwestern Iranian group which likely separated from the other dialects of Central Iran during the early centuries AD (the Middle Iranian period). Kurdish in turn emerged as a group within Northwest Iranian during the Medieval Period (roughly 10th to 16th centuries). [ 15 ]
Who are the Kurds? - National Geographic
Aug 16, 2019 · Kurdish forces fought against the Islamic State when it began to capture Iraqi towns in 2014. Today, the Kurds are spread across four nations. Who are they? The world’s largest stateless ethnic...
Kurdistan - Wikipedia
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 ...
Kurdish people - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Indo-European [1][2][3] ethnic group indigenous to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria. [4][5]
The Kurds’ Long Struggle With Statelessness - Council on Foreign ...
The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even...
Kurdistan | History, Religion, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Jan 16, 2025 · Kurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of …
The Kurds – Kurdish Political Studies Program
Kurds are among the native peoples of Mesopotamia. They constitute the second-largest ethnolinguistic group in contemporary Turkey, Iraq, and Syria and the third-largest group in Iran.