- Kurds
- kÉœËd n. member of Muslim people who inhabit the region of Kurdistan
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
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Kurds in Syria — Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria making up less than 10% of the country s population. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the world factbook/geos/sy.html] Most of them are Sunni Muslims; there are also Yazidi Kurds in Syria. A … Wikipedia
Kurds in Armenia — The Kurds in Armenia mainly live in the western parts of Armenia. The Kurds of the former Soviet Union first began writing Kurdish in the Armenian alphabet in the 1920s, followed by Latin in 1927, then Cyrillic in 1945, and now in both Cyrillic… … Wikipedia
Kurds in Turkey — The Kurds in Turkey (Kurdish: Kurdên li Tirkiye , Turkish: Türkiye deki Kürtler ) are an Indo European people first mentioned in ancient Greek sources. [Anabasis, transl. by C.L. Brownson, Loeb Classical Library, 1922, rev. 1989, ISBN, 0 67499101 … Wikipedia
Kurds in Lebanon — The Kurds in Lebanon have not received public or official attention except at times when Kurdish youngsters were needed to fight a certain battle for a certain part, or at times when Kurdish votes were need by a local leader to be successful in… … Wikipedia
Kurds in Sweden — Infobox Ethnic group group = Kurdish Swedes poptime = 140 000 [http://www.fkks.se/index.php?module=announce ANN user op=view ANN id=95 Kurder i Sverige och Integrationsprocessen KURDISKA RIKSFÖRBUNDET Federasyona Komeleyên Kurdistanê Li Swêdê ] ] … Wikipedia
Newroz as celebrated by Kurds — This article is about the Kurds celebrating the Iranic feast of Nowruz. For the main article, see Nowruz. Newroz or Nûroj[1] (Kurdish: نهورۆز/Newroz/Nûroj, also: Gulus[2] Kurdish: گوڵوس) refers to the celebration of the traditional Iranian new… … Wikipedia
Origins of the Kurds — HistoryThe earliest known evidence of a unified and distinct culture in the mountains that date back to the Halaf culture of 8,000 7,400 years ago. This was followed by the Hurrian period (in Mesopotamia and Zagros Taurus mountains) which lasted… … Wikipedia
Azarbaijani Kurds — ethnic group group=Azarbaijani Kurds poptime= 2 to 2.5 million popplace=Azarbaijan region1= West Azerbaijan (also referred to as Iranian Kurdistan) region2= East Azarbaijan rels= Sunni Muslim, Yarsan langs= Kurdish (Native) Persian second… … Wikipedia
Faili Kurds — This is a group of some 150,000 Kurds originally from the Kirmanshah region in Iran, who had lived in Iraq (many in Baghdad) since Ottoman times but without Iraqi citizenship. In the late 1970s, the Iraqi government expelled at least 50,000 of … Historical Dictionary of the Kurds
British Kurds — Infobox Ethnic group group = British Kurds poptime = Up to 80,000 [ [http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/] ] 0.13% of the UK s population popplace = Dewsbury, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool langs = British English, Kurdish.… … Wikipedia
