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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]
Parts of northern Syria are known as Western Kurdistan (Kurdish: Rojavayê Kurdistanê), or simply Rojava (/ ˌ r oʊ ʒ ə ˈ v ɑː / ROH-zhə-VAH; Kurdish: [roʒɑˈvɑ] "the West") among Kurds, [31] [9] [32] one of the four parts of Greater Kurdistan. [33] The name "Rojava" was thus associated with a Kurdish identity of the administration.
Kurdish-inhabited areas (according to CIA, 1992) [1] [2]. Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.
The Kurdistan Region has the lowest poverty rates in Iraq [67] and the stronger economy of the Kurdistan Region attracted around 20,000 workers from other parts of Iraq between 2003 and 2005. [68] The number of millionaires in the city of Sulaymaniyah grew from 12 to 2,000 in 2003, reflecting the economic growth. [69]
Kurdish-inhabited areas (according to CIA, 1992) [1] [2]. Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.
In the same month President of Kurdistan Region, President Masud Barzani, visited Washington, D.C., and met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. [35] The Consulate General of the United States in Erbil was established in July 2011. [35] Kurdistan Region have a representative office in the United States from February 2007. [36]
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.
See also: Kurdistan (disambiguation). Kurdistan is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds.. Encyclopædia Britannica: Kurdistan - traditional region, an extensive plateau and mountain area inhabited mainly by Kurds, including large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and northern Iraq, and smaller parts of ...