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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]
Some believed the term "Kurd" referred to the nomads of the Zagros Mountains, while others viewed the Kurds as an ethnic group, although they were uncertain about the origin of these people. [9] During this period, Kurds were also already present in eastern Anatolia. [10] According to The Cambridge History of the Kurds:
The Kurdish people are believed to be of heterogeneous origins, both from Iranian-speaking and non-Iranian peoples, [19] combining a number of earlier tribal or ethnic groups [J] including Lullubi, [21] Guti, [21] [22] [23] Cyrtians, [24] Sumerian [25] and Carduchi.
The total Kurdish population in the United States according to the 2000 census was 9,423. [14] More recent accounts estimate the total Kurdish population in the US at around 15,361. [15] Other sources claim that the number of ethnic Kurds in the United States is between 15,000 and 20,000 people. [16
Kurdish culture is a group of distinctive cultural traits practiced by Kurdish people. The Kurdish culture is a legacy from ancient peoples who shaped modern Kurds and their society. Kurds are an ethnic group who live in the northern Middle East, in a region that the Kurds call Greater Kurdistan.
According to the World Factbook, Kurdish people make up 18% of Turkey's population (about 14 million, out of 77.8 million people). [11] Kurdish sources put the figure at 10 [12] to 15 million Kurds in Turkey. [13] Kurds mostly live in Northern Kurdistan, in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia. But large Kurdish populations can be found in western ...
On the contrary only 58.4% of the surveyed Zaza people declared that their primary home language was Zazaki, and Turkish was the second most popular home language with 38.3% of Zazas speaking it at their homes. 1.9% of the surveyed people who identified as Zaza expressed that their home language was Kurdish. Around 1.4% people belonging to ...
A large portion of the centuries-old Kurdish population in present-day Azerbaijan was deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia from the 1930s onwards. The remaining Kurdish population in the former Red Kurdistan area (Lachin and Kelbajar districts) was displaced by ethnic-Armenian forces during the first Nagorno-Karabakh War, whilst the Kurds outside of the conflict zone in Azerbaijan ...