Definition of Kurds. Meaning of Kurds. Synonyms of Kurds

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Definition of Kurds

Kurd
Kurd Kurd, n. A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

Meaning of Kurds from wikipedia

- Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in West Asia, which...
-  'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent...
- 20 million Kurds in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and northwest and northeast Iran. Sorani is spoken by an estimated 6 to 7 million Kurds in much of Iraqi...
- million people). Kurdish sources put the figure at 10 to 15 million Kurds in Turkey. Kurds mostly live in Northern Kurdistan, in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia...
- namely: Saçlı Kürdü (long-haired Kurds), Yezidi Ekrad (Yezidi Kurds), Saçlı Yezidi Kürdleri (long-haired Yezidi Kurds), kavm-i na-pak (impure group), bed-mezheb...
- been committed against the Kurds, with one prominent incident being the Zilan M****acre. The Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until...
- whom it has been reinterpreted as meaning "speaker of Kūrd. A proposed connection with the Kurds of Western Asia has been dismissed by Elfenbein as folk...
- (Proto-Balochs) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds (Proto-Kurds), in the wording of G. Windfuhr (1975: 459), lived either in northwestern...
- most Kurds came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, where they were governed as part of the empire's administrative structure. Iraqi Kurds began to...
- Kürd or Kurd may refer to the following villages: Kürd Eldarbəyli, Azerbaijan Kürd Mahruzlu, Azerbaijan Kürd, Goychay, Azerbaijan Kürd, Jalilabad, Azerbaijan...