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This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state, they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan" which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.) [1] [2]
Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East (1992) Maunsell's map of 1910, a pre-World War I British ethnographical map of the Middle East, showing the Kurdish regions in yellow (both light and dark) Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds. [50]
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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 based. [9]
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 Turkey due to internal migration. According to Rüstem Erkan, Istanbul is the province with the largest Kurdish population in Turkey. [14]
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1 Europe. Toggle Europe subsection. 1.1 UK. 1.2 Sweden. 1.3 France. 1.4 Belgium. 1.5 Germany. 2 Middle East. ... The following is a list of Kurdish Organisations
The shaded areas indicate the presence of Kurdish-speaking communities, but not necessarily a local Kurdish majority. The map is based on a 2007 overview map made for Le Monde Diplomatique, not based on any further identifiable sources, and on the similarly organised (but distinct in its details) 1998 map by Mehrdad R. Izady (marked "for class use only").