Refimprove date August 2011 This is a list of well known and notable Kurdishpeople. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are of Kurdish background. Poets and writers The following is a list of people who have contributed to the Kurdish language literature. Nizami Ganjavi 1141 1209 , Persian epic poet. Kurdish mother Ali Hariri 1425 1495 , the first well known Kurdish poet. Ahmade Bate Ehmed Bat , 1417 1491 , Kurdish poet and Muslim cleric, Hakkari region. Malaye Jaziri Melay Ciz r , 1570 1640 , Kurdish poet and sufi Faqi Tayran Feq y Teyran , 1590 ... Reflist DEFAULTSORT KurdishPeople Category Lists of people by ethnicity Category Kurdishpeople Category ... , linguist and writer. Mustafa Besarani , 1642 1701 ,Kurdish poet Ahmad Khani Ehmed Xan , 1651 1707 , Kurdish poet and a Muslim scholar, author of Mem Z n. Khana Qubadi Xana Qubad , 1700 1759 , Kurdish poet, author of r n Xesrew. Mahmud Bayazidi 1797 1859 , Kurdish writer, translator and historian. Nal 1797 1869 , Kurdish poet. Mastoura Ardalan 1805 1848 , Kurdish poet and historiographer. Mawlawi Tawagozi 1806 1882 , Kurdish poet and sufi. Haji Qadir Koyi 1817 1897 , Kurdish poet ... , Kurdish poet and sufi. Sheikh Rezza Talabani 1835 1910 , Kurdish, Iraq. Wafaei 1844 1902 , Kurdish poet, Iran. Edeb 1860 1918 , Kurdish poet, Iran Piramerd 1867 1950 , Kurdish poet, writer, novelist ... Bedirxan , 1893 1951 , linguist, journalist and politician, founder of the Latin based Kurdish alphabet .... Arab Shamilov Ereb emo 1897 1978 , Kurdish writer and novelist, Armenia. Rafiq Hilmi 1898 1960 , Kurdish writer, literary analyst and politician, Iraq. Cigerxw n Cegerxw n , 1903 1984 , Kurdish poet and writer, Turkey Syria. Abdulla Goran 1904 1962 , Kurdish poet. Osman Sabri 1905 1993 , Kurdish poet, writer and journalist, Turkey Syria. Em n Evdal 1906 1964 , Kurdish writer and linguist, Armenia. Alaaddin Sajadi 1907 1984 , Kurdish writer, poet and academic, Iraqi Kurdistan. Hec y Cind ... more details
of the Kurdishpeople against foreign domination. In fact, Beyt dimdim is considered a national ..., such as the Carduchoi of Classical Antiquity. The earliest known Kurdish dynasties under Islamic ... point in Kurdish history, marking the alliance of Kurds with the Ottomans. The Sharafnameh of 1597 is the first account of Kurdish history. Kurdish history in the 20th century is marked by a rising sense of Kurdish nationhood focussed on the goal of an independent Kurdistan as scheduled by the Treaty ... of Lake Van and Lake Urmia, with some offshoots in the Caucasus...If there was a Kurdish speaking ... a long way off from becoming an ethnonym or a term denoting a distinct group of people ref In the early ... synonymous with nomad , if nothing more pejorative D.N. Mackenzie, The Origin of Kurdish , Transactions ... of Kurdish , Transactions of Philological Society , 1961, pp 68 86. ref By the 16th century ... ot grp14 ot kurdlang i 20081215.html Ludwig Paul, HISTORY OF THE KURDISH LANGUAGE in Encyclop dia ... a people living in Mt. Azu or Hizan near Lake Van by the name Kurti or Kurkhi . The country of the Kurkhi ... or Qarda . This land south of Lake Van, was inhabited by the people of Su or Subaru region Subaru who were connected with the Qurtie , a group of mountain dwellers. ref Hakan Ozoglu, Kurdish notables and the Ottoman State , 2004, SUNY Press, 186 pp., ISBN 0 7914 5993 4 See p. 23 ref Prehistory Kurdish language Kurdish is a language of the Northwestern Iranian languages Northwestern Iranian group .... Even though there are no records of the Kurdish language prior to the 13th century, the presence of Armenian language Armenian loanwords indicates that there must have been Kurdish Armenian contacts by at least 1100 CE. The present state of knowledge about Kurdish allows, at least roughly, drawing ... Kurdish dialects was formed. The most argued hypothesis on the localisation of the ethnic territory ... the ideas of P. Tedesco 1921 255 and regarding the common phonetic isoglosses shared by Kurdish, Persian ... more details
Infobox country demographics country People s Republic of China image Image ChinaDemography.svg 280px ..., Mindong, others , Xiang, Gan, Hakka, various Mandarin dialects and Patu The demographics of the People ..., which is partially a result of the People s Republic of China s one child policy . The population ... . According to the Sixth National Population Census of the People s Republic of China 2010 ... 1750 260,000,000 1850 412,000,000 Censuses in the People s Republic of China The People s Republic ... since 1949 and confirmed that China was a nation of more than 1 billion people, or about one fifth ... the People s Republic of China was founded, demographers had reliable information on the size and composition ... of the deceased. Nevertheless, the 1982 census was a watershed for both Chinese and world demographics ... by a group in the State Council of the People s Republic of China State Council . Committees ... areas the country s barefoot doctor s distributed information and contraceptive s to people ... or quotas had to be adhered to to satisfy these cutoffs, unmarried young people were persuaded to postpone ... major regional variations, the western and northern part have a few million people, while eastern half ... was about 109 people per km sup 2 sup . Density was only about one third that of Demography of Japan ... along the southeast coast, population density was 320.6 people per km sup 2 sup . Broadly speaking ... are completely uninhabited, and only a few sections have populations denser than ten people per km ... census, males account for 51.27 percent of China s 1.34 billion people, while females made up ... profit and the lack of an old age welfare system were incentives for rural people to produce ... to mainland China . See Demographics of Hong Kong and Demographics of Macau . Population Mainland only ... publications the world factbook geos ch.html People CIA Factbook China ref ref http www.state.gov ... people ref ref name autogenerated1 http atheism.about.com library world AJ bl ChinaIndex.htm China ... more details
Human rights of Kurdishpeople in Turkey looks at the human rights of Kurds in Turkey . Issues Education ... mentioned municipality, 72 of the people of the district use Kurdish language Kurdish in their daily ... Category Kurdishpeople Category Minority rights Category Racism ... 2006 12 28 ref The Kurdish population of Turkey has long sought to have Kurdish language Kurdish included ... Kurdish instruction centers were stopped on technical grounds, such as wrong dimensions of doors. An experiment at running Kurdish language schools was wound up in 2004 because of an apparent lack of interest. ref name csmonitor cite news title Opened with a flourish, Turkey s Kurdish language schools ... 2005 1005 p07s02 woeu.html date 2005 05 12 accessdate 2006 12 17 ref Kurdish is permitted as a subject ... 163330 accessdate 2009 01 05 title Kurdish to be offered as elective course at universities date ... url http www.hurriyetdailynews.com n.php?n universities experiences courses in kurdish 2010 12 10 accessdate ... governments have viewed the expression of a Kurdish identity as a potential threat to Turkish unity ... accusations of cultural assimilation relates to the state s historic suppression of the Kurdish language. Kurdish publications created throughout the 1960s and 1970s were shut down under various ..., the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in government institutions. ref name NYTK Toumani ... US Congressman Bob Filner spoke of a cultural genocide , stressing that a way of life known as Kurdish is disappearing at an alarming rate . ref cite book title The Kurdish Question in U.S. Foreign ... 0 313 31435 7 chapter Congressional Record url http books.google.com ?id BD7imPDFto0C&dq The Kurdish ... of Kurdish Educational Language Policy in Two Situations of Occupation journal Genocide Studies and Prevention ... into the following categories ref http www.gomidas.org forum af4kurds.htm Kurdish and Armenian Genocides ... of the Kurdish language , and the forced relocation of Kurds to non Kurdish areas of Turkey. The banning ... more details
Wiktionarypar Kurdish InterWiki code ku Kurdish lang ku Kurd may refer to The Kurdishpeople The Kurdish language The Kurdish alphabet Kurdistan , the land of the Kurdishpeople which includes Iranian Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan Turkish Kurdistan Syrian Kurdistan History of the KurdishpeopleKurdish literature Kurdish music Yazidi , the religion of some Kurds Kurdish rugs Kurdish cuisine Kurdish culture disambig ar arc da Kurdisk de Kurdisch gl Curdo it Curdo ja pt Curdo ... more details
types of demographics for marketing are age, gender, income level, race and ethnicity. Generational ... annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. ref The notion of a group of people bound ... of samples of people typically beginning with around 17,000 in each study for many years, and are still ... people in terms of their health, education, attitudes, childbearing and employment patterns. The last ... about groups of people. As with all such generalizations many individuals within these groups ... Demographics An analysis of the effect of changing demographic patterns on school enrollments ...?TERM DEMOGRAPHICSDEMOGRAPHICSDemographics as a term in Economics Demographics by continent Category Demographics Category Consumer behaviour Category Market research Category Demographic economics ... more details
Essay like article date April 2008 Kurdish mythology is the collective term for the beliefs and practices of the culturally, ethnically or linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Kurdistan mountains of Taurus Mountains Taurus and Western Zagros in northern Mesopotamia . In Kurdish mythology, Kurds are descended of people who fled to the mountains to save their lives from the oppression of a despotic king. It is believed that the people who fled and hid in the mountains over the course of history created a kurdishpeopleKurdish ethnicity. Bulloch and Morris. p50 Mountains, to this day, are still important geographical and symbolic figures in Kurdish life. The Mount Judi is the most important mountain in Kurdish folklore and along with Mount Ararat is one of the mountains that is thought to be the final resting place of Noah s Ark . In Kurdish mythology Patriarch Abraham Hebrew Bible Abraham is considered to be a Kurdishpeople Kurd . He was from the present day of Kurdistan and his place of birth is located in historic Kurdish city of Ruha Urfa . It is still one of the holiest places in Kurdistan and in Kurdish folklore. References Unreferenced date February 2008 See also Iranian mythology Kurdish culture Category Kurdish mythology Category Kurdish culture MEast myth stub ... more details
Image Kurdishrug.jpg thumb 200px Kurdish couple displaying typical colorful handmade carpet Kurdish rugs lang ku are rugs woven by the Kurdishpeople in the Middle East, predominantly the larger Kurdistan region including the Eastern part of Turkey near the Tauros Mountains, Iraq, southernmost Caucasus , Soviet Armenia and North Western Iran ref name Neff Neff, Ivan C. and Carol V. Maggs. Dictionary of Oriental Rugs. London AD. Donker LTD, 1977. ISBN 978 0 949937 35 3 ref . When referring to Kurdish rugs within the rug industry, one is referring to those made within Iranian Kurdistan ref name Neff . Structure File Antique kurdish rug 429871.jpg thumb Antique Kurdish Rug Kurdish Rugs are stout and solid in structure, usually made in symmetrical knotting upon a woolen foundation. Design Kurdish rugs and carpets do use medallion patterns however, far more popular are the all over floral, Mina Khani motifs and the jaff geometric patterns ref name Neff . The beauty of Kurdish designs are enriched by high chroma blues, greens, saffrons as well as terracotta and burnt orange hues made richer still by the lusturous wool used. small 4 small Clarify post text to what does this refer? date September 2010 The traditional Kurdish Rug uses Kurdish symbols. It is possible to read the dreams, wishes and hopes of the rug maker from the sequence of symbols used. It is this signification and communication both individually and grouped into Kurdish rug making Clarify post text sentence fragment date September 2010 . Kurdishpeople study how meaning is constructed and understood by talking with the rug maker. File Antique kurdish iran rug 404854.jpg thumb Northwest Persian Kurdish Wagireh ... of a Kurdish Rug Type http 0 www.search.eb.com.library.uor.edu eb article 9046468?query Kurdish 20rugs&ct eb Encyclop dia Britannica Rugs and carpets Kurdish culture DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Rugs Category Kurdish culture Category Rugs and carpets Textile arts stub ckb ... more details
Infobox language name Southern Kurdish nativename Kurd Xuwarig states Eastern Iraq , Western Iran region Main in Western Iran, Kermanshah , Ilam Province , eastern Kurdistan Province , western Hamedan province , Qazvin province , southern kurds diaspora in Tehran province , Alborz province Eastern Iraq border with those provinces including Xanaqin , Kifri , Mandali , Qorwaq and Baghdad . speakers About 6,000,000 ref http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code sdh Ethnologue Kurdish, Southern ref in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere. familycolor Indo European fam2 Indo Iranian languages Indo Iranian fam3 Iranian languages Iranian fam4 Western fam5 Northwestern fam6 Kurdish language Kurdish iso3 sdh lingua 58 AAA c map SOUTHERN KURDISH.JPG mapcaption Southern Kurdish Area Southern Kurdish Southern Kurdish Kurd Xuwarig , also called Kermashani dialect Kerm n hi , belongs to the Northwestern Iranian languages and is predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq . In Iran , it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah Kerm n n and Ilam Province Ilam . In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin Xaneq n , all the way to Mandali , Pehle . It is also the language of the populous KurdishpeopleKurdish Kakay tribe near Kerkuk and the Zengene s near Kifr . There are also populous diasporas of Southern Kurdish Dialects group found in the Alburz mountains. Its dialects are Kolya , Kermashani dialect Kermanshahi Kerm n n , Kalhuri , Garrusi Gerr s Bijari , Sanj bi Sencab , Malekshahi ... Southern Kurdish dialects, such as Laki language Laki , are spoken in Iran in the provinces of Lorestan ..., Jere L. Bacharach ref See also Kalhor tribe Kalhor Gorani , Hewrami Central Kurdish Northern Kurdish External links Incubator code sdh language Southern Kurdish http www.kirmashan.com Information regarding Southern Kurdish http www.kurdishacademy.org Kurdish Academy of Language describing Southern Kurdish References references Kurdish language Iranian languages Category Kurdish language ie lang ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2009 Kurdish cinema lang ku mainly evokes the poverty and sufferings of the Kurdishpeople in the Middle East . Yilmaz G ney , Hiner Saleem , Bahman Qubadi , Mano Khalil , Shero Rauf , Jano Rosebiani , Kazim Oz, Shewket Amin Korki, Havi Ibrahim , Hisham Zaman, Jay Jonroy and Y ksel Yavuz are among the better known Kurdish directors. The following is a list of some better known Kurdish films The Legend of Kawa the Blacksmith ,2009 David & Layla , 2006 Turtles Can Fly , 2004 Vodka Lemon , 2004 Jiyan , 2002 Marooned in Iraq , 2002 A Time for Drunken Horses , 2000 Yol , 1982 A Song For Beko Klamek ji bo Beko , 1992 Kurdish Film Files http tcnarchive.blogspot.com 2006 10 kurdish film files.html Kurdish culture DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Cinema Category Kurdish culture Film genre stub fr Cin ma kurde ku L steya f lm n kurd tr K rt sinemas ... more details
The total KurdishpeopleKurdish population in the United States in 2000 census was 9,423 ref ... Nashville , Tennessee has the United States largest population of Kurdishpeople. Based on the 2000 ... peopleKurdish population is 1,770 based on 2000 census. ref http www.mla.org map data results&state id 47&place id 52006&cty id ref Though most Kurdishpeople follow Sunni Islam, there are also minorities ... Kurdish American history ethno group stub US stub Category American people of Kurdish descent ...Infobox Ethnic group group Kurdish American population 9,423 2000 census ref cite web author US Census ... 2010 11 14 ref br popplace Tennessee , Virginia image image caption languages American English Kurdish language Kurdish religions Muslim small mostly Sunni small some Yezidi also, small numbers of Christians related Other Iranian people s footnotes Kurdish Americans are Demography of the United States Americans of KurdishpeopleKurdish descent, the majority of Kurdish Americans are recent migrants. History Kurdish immigration in the United States began in the twentieth century. The Kurdish who ... the Kurdish emigration to United States like to Iran . ref name journeyintoamerica http journeyintoamerica.wordpress.com ... arrive to Nashville, the first group of Kurdish refugees. The following year, many Iraqis of Kurdish descent emigrated to the U.S., although the majority of the Kurdish of the second wave that came ... v002 001 article04.php Kurdish Herald. February 2010 by Hero Karimi. Retrieved November 29, 2011, to 21 58 pm ref This migration was due to the support of many Kurdish to Iran in the Iran Iraq War , because Saddam Hussein retaliated against this people, attacking with chemical weapons and invading ... moved to the U.S. during this time. The last wave of migration Kurdish to the United States or at least to Nashville , the main area of Kurdish communities in this country, was Between 1996 and 1997, developed .... Kurdish refugees crossed the Turkish border, place where they were evacuated to Guam a military ... more details
. A historical list of Kurdish literature and poets Main List of Kurdishpeople Religious Mishefa Resh ...Kurds Kurdish literature in Kurdish language Kurdish ku W je W jeya Kurd refers to literature written in Kurdish language . Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani ... 51 Kurdish Literature , Kurdish Academy of Language ref ref http www.cultinfo.ru fulltext 1 001 008 067 630.htm In Russian ref is one of the first well known poets who wrote in Kurdish. He was from ... and Iranian Kurdistan, is classified in some sources as a branch of Kurdish http www.kurdishacademy.org ... kurdish&ct although this is disputed by others. http www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk siamakr Kurdish Papers Hassanpour98.html .... Based on this date, Meshef can be considered as the oldest piece of prose in Kurmanji. The Kurdish ... distich s,is probably the best known and most popular of the classical Kurdish poets. ref cite encyclopedia last KREYENBROEK first PHILIP G. title KURDISH WRITTEN LITERATURE encyclopedia Encyclopedia ... , was written in 1694 by Ahmad Khani 1651 1707 from Hakkari, is a rich source of Kurdish culture, history and mythology. This work also emphasizes the nationalism national aspirations of the Kurdishpeople. Mam of the Alan clan and Zin of Buhtan family are two lovers from Alan and Butan families ... of the death of Mam and Zin, spreads quickly among the people of Jazira Butan . Then Bakr s role ... and slain by the people of Jazira. A thorn bush soon grows out of Bakr s blood, sending its roots ... and university education in Kurdish and for many decades. This in turn lead to an appearance of several Kurdish writers and researchers among them. The literary works of Kurdoev and Shamilov are the well known examples of Kurdish prose in the 20th century. The first modern latin based alphabet for Kurdish was created by Jaladat Ali Badirkhan , the poet and writer who fled Turkey in 1920s ... of Kurds in Turkey to write and to create literary works in Kurdish. The amount of printed material ... more details
KurdishpeopleKurdish traditional clothing lang ku Cil Kurd are variant and an ongoing part of Kurdish heritage. Kurdish clothes have never gone out of fashion. Types of clothing and accessories Rank ... music Kurdish dance History of the Kurds Kurdishpeople KurdishMedia.com Kurdishfashion.com References ... Kurdish dress The traditional Kurdish dresses ref A Kurd in traditional dress from the Caucasus Region .... The Kurdish costume was worn every day in the past. Currently some women still wear them on a daily ... in colour and have little or no accessories or embroideries. In the present day the Kurdish dress is more commonly worn on special occasions. Traditional Kurdish women s outfit includes either ... beneath the gown. A belt over the gown is also needed. Traditionally women wore Kurdish hats ornamented ... is usually the dazzling masterpiece of the outfit. Most commonly Kurdish women wear a mesh ... material used to make the women s national Kurdish dress http www.flickr.com photos maureenmc 393394150 ref . The brightly coloured outfits characterize the spirit of the Kurdishpeople. There are many different structural designs of the gown. The most common ones today are the traditional Kurdish region gown which is straight top to bottom with very long sleeves and the Kurdish Iranian gown which ... are inexpensive unlike the Lira coins. The traditional Kurdish hat is usually black velveteen ornamented with traditional amber and turquoise beads ref Kurdish Photos A little Kurdish girl http www.fortunecity.com victorian portfolio 160 id48.htm ref with gold or silver charms. Traditional Kurdish ... belt but the coins are inexpensive unlike the Lira coins. Modern dress Most Kurdish women and men have a large collection of Kurdish dresses and are always on the lookout for new designs and fabric ... specialize in making Kurdish clothes. Recently these respected tailors have turned into designers ... Kurdish styles ref About Dilla http www.dellalondon.co.uk about ref . There are so many different ... more details
Kurdish Christians Kurdish language Kurdish lang ku Kurd n Xir st ref http ku.wiktionary.org wiki xir C3 AEstiyan Massehi in Kurdish Wiktionary ref are Kurdishpeople Kurds who follow Christianity and mostly ... . The Arabic word lang ku Mes h is also sometimes used. Kurdish Christians should not be confused with other historical Christian communities living in the area such as the Assyrian people Assyrians , Armenian people Armenians or Georgian people Georgians . The total number of Kurdish Christians today ... Christians Category Christianity in Kurdistan Category Kurdishpeople fr Kurdes chr tiens sv Kristna ... Empire . However, there were Kurdish converts to Christianity even after the spread of Islam. In the ninth ... Empire, Slavic Review , p.111, 1968. ref During the same period, the Kurdish prince Ibn ad Dahhak ..., Vizantija i araby. Vol. II. Saint Petersburg, 1902 , p. 220. ref There were many Kurdish Christian ... church.html ref and 13th centuries AD. In the late 11th and the early 12th century AD, Kurdish ..., several Christian villages existed in Kurdistan , whose inhabitants spoke only Kurdish language Kurdish , and there were Muslim Kurdish tribes that recalled they were once Christians. Kurds who converted ... Geographical Society reported about a Kurdish tribe in Sivas which retained certain Christian observances ..., p.313 ref It is also possible that many Kurdish Christians have been linguistically and hence ethnically ... to serve the Kurds of Iran. From 1911 to 1916, it established a Kurdish Wiktionary congregation ... prominent Kurdish leaders in Iraqi Kurdistan , Ahmed Barzani Sheikh Ahmed Barzani who was a brother ... government in 1931 ref The Kurdish Minority Problem , p.11, Dec. 1948, ORE 71 48, CIA http www.foia.cia.gov docs DOC 0000258376 0000258376 0014.gif . ref . Contemporary Kurdish Christians Image ... in 1991, Christian agencies offered help to Kurdish refugees, who were amazed that the assistance ..., Sep. 1997 ref The Kurdish Speaking Church of Christ The Kurdzman Church of Christ was established in Hewl r ... more details
Kurdish culture Kurdish language Kurdish Kulturi Kurdi or and toreya kurd is a group of distinctive cultural traits practiced by Kurdishpeople. The Kurdish culture is a legacy from ancient peoples who shaped modern Kurdishpeople Kurds and their society. Some aspects of Kurdish culture ... into Kurdish rug making Kurdishpeople study how meaning is constructed and understood by talking ..., ethnicity by people inhabiting the Kurdish mountains dates back to the Halaf culture of 6000 BC ... year day, which is celebrated on March 21. Music Main Kurdish music Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers storytelling storytellers rokb j , minstrel s stranb j and bard s dengb j . There was no specific music related to the Kurdish princely courts, and instead, music ... ballads recounting the tales of Kurdish heroes of the past like Saladin . Heyran s are love ballads ... and other celebratory songs d lok nar nk , erotic poetry and work song s are also popular. Kurdish .... Dance Main Kurdish dance Kurdish dance is a group of traditional hand holding dances similar ... Muslim populations. Kurdish dance has various and numerous versions such as following Yalli Dilan Sepe Kurdish dance Sepe Geryan Chapi Kurdish dance Chapi Rug File Antique kurdish rug 429871.jpg thumb right 100px Antique Kurdish Rug Main Kurdish rugs Kurdish rugs and carpets do use medallion patterns .... The beauty of Kurdish designs are enriched by high chroma blues, greens, saffrons as well as terracotta and burnt orange hues made richer still by the lusturous wool used. The traditional Kurdish Rug uses Kurdish symbols. It is possible to read the dreams, wishes and hopes of the rug maker ... angel of Yazidism religion Main articles Cultural Muslim , Yazidism , Yarsan , Yazdanism , Kurdish Jews , Kurdish Christians Before the spread of Islam in the 7th century CE, the majority of Kurds practised ... Before the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, a large part of the Kurdish population practised ... more details
and certain aspects of this dance have been inspired from KurdishpeopleKurdish traditions such as the Kurdish Dance and added to the dance to create what we know now. References reflist See also Kurdish culture Assyrian dance Debke a form of Arabic dance Kurdish culture Category Kurdish dance Category Kurdish culture ar fa ka ku Govend no Halperke sv Kurdisk dans ...Kurdish dance Kurdish language Kurdish Govend , Hilperk ref http ku.wiktionary.org wiki govend Govend , Kurdish Wiktionary. ref is a group of traditional hand holding dance s similar to those from the Balkans , Lebanon and Eastern European countries. It is a form of round dancing , with a single or a couple of figure dancers often added to the geometrical centre of the dancing circle. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam , Kurdishpeople Kurds sing and dance in all of their festivals, birthday s, New Year s, Newroz , marriage and other ceremonies. Its noteworthy that these Kurdish folklore folkloric dances are mixed gender which distinguishes the Kurds from a few other neighbouring ... BRILL Publishers, 1986, 1263 pp. see p. 477 . ref Roots of Kurdish dance Kurdish dances reflect samples of Kurdish life over the past thousands of years. Rhythmic and elegant movements originating from historical record, geographical location, the Kurdish way of living, beliefs, work and struggle, war and quarrel , are called called Halparke or Helperk Hilperk in Kurdish alphabet . Halparke has ... place. Some kinds of these rhythms wear out and are forgotten through the passage of time. Kurdishpeople from Kurdistan mainly dance the helperke, it is more easier and the simplest. Variations Image KurdishDance.JPG thumb 230px Berlin Germany. Carneval of Cultures. Kurdish dance performance In every ... from many ages. You can have 3 years old and 83 year olds in the same line at a party. Some Kurdish ... Kurdish dances. It consists of stepping forward on the left foot twice and then stepping back on the right ... more details
The problem of Kurdish refugees and displaced has been created over the 20th century in the Middle East ... the Kurdish population originates. In the early 20th century, massive desplacements were forced ... and 1930s, when large scale Kurdish rebellions , resulted in massive massacres and expulsion of hundreds of thousands. Since the 1970s, renewed violence of the Turkey PKK conflict Turkish Kurdish confict created about 3,000,000 displaced, many of which remain unsettled. In Iraq, the Kurdish .... The displacement however became most significant during the Iraqi Kurdish conflict and parallel ... northern Iraq of its Kurdish majority. Tens of thousands of Kurds turned displaced and fled the war zones following First Kurdish Iraqi War First and Second Kurdish Iraqi War s in 1960s and 1970s. The Iran ... together generated several millions of primarily Kurdish refugees, who mostly found refuge in Iran, while others dispersed into Kurdish diaspora in Europe and the Americas. Iran alone provided asylum ... 1990 91 and the subsequent rebellions. Today, a large portion of the Kurdish population is composed of Kurdish refugees and displaced and their descendants. Refugees themselves still comprise a significant proportion of Iranian and Syrian Kurds. Recently, the Syrian Kurdish community was declaired ... were given an official status in Syria. Kurdish refugees and displaced during World War I Empty section date August 2011 Demographic catastrophe of the Kurdish rebellions against Turkey Empty section date August 2011 Refugees of the Kurdish Iraqi conflict First Kurdish Iraqi War Empty section date August 2011 Second Kurdish Iraqi War and the Arabization campaign in North Iraq See also Kurdish ... Arabs driving out Kurds in northern Iraq ref Nowadays, eastern Mosul is Kurdish and western Mosul ... being pressured to move, in particular Assyrian people Assyrian Christians and Iraqi Turkmen , which have prompted serious inter ethnic problems. ref Stansfield, Gareth . 2007 . Iraq People, History ... more details
File Kibbeh3.jpg thumb 200px Deep fried Kurdish kubbeh refimprove date November 2009 Kurdish cuisine consists of a wide variety of foods prepared by the Kurdishpeople that have got many traditions from their homeland, Kurdistan . Culinary customs The Kurdish diet includes a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Cucumbers are especially common. Lamb and chicken are the primary meats. Breakfast is typically flat bread, honey, sheep or buffalo yoghurt, and a glass of black tea. Savoury dishes are usually served with rice or flat bread. Lamb and vegetables are simmered in a tomato sauce to make a stew usually served with rice. Kurdistan has a climate and soil suited to grapes, pomegranates, figs, and walnuts. Kurdish honey has a clear light taste and is often sold with the honeycomb. Kurdistan also produces dairy products from sheep and buffalo milk. Kurds make many types of kofta and Kibbeh kubba , dumplings filled with meat. Kurdish cuisine makes abundant use of fresh herbs. ref http www.krg.org articles detail.asp?lngnr 12&smap 03014200&rnr 151&anr 18693 Kurdistan s cuisine ref Sweetened black tea is a very common drink, along with bitter strong coffee. Annother favourite kurdish drink is mastow sorani or Ava Mast , which is yougurt and salt mixed with water. kurmanc . ref http www.krg.org articles detail.asp?rnr 151&lngnr 12&smap 03014200&anr 18693 Kurdistan s cuisine ref Staples of Kurdish cuisine are Kutilk , Berbesel , kellane , kullerenaske , dokliw , biryani , par v Tobouli ... kurds.html Middle East ref Savar , a traditional dish among Kurdish farmers, is made ... google.com search?q cache eq abt wv48J www.saradistribution.com sharistani.htm kurdish food&cd 6&hl ... features.weekend17 Iraqi Kurdish, Life Style, The Guardian ref Breakfast A typical Kurkish breakfast ... sources http www.sarahmelamed.com 2009 11 hamousta kurdish sour dumpling soup Kubbah hamousta, prepared by Kurdish Jews Category Kurdish cuisine Asia topic title Asian cuisine prefix Cuisine of ar ... more details
and Faqi Tayran . The Italian people Italian priest Maurizio Garzoni published the first Kurdish ... 05 2 ref See also Portal box Kurdistan Language Kurdishpeople Template Iranian languages word table ...Infobox language name Kurdish nativename , Kurd , Kurd , ref cite web url http www.kurdishacademy.org ?q node 41 title Kurdish Language Kurdish Academy of Language publisher Kurdishacademy.org ... flag Armenia br flag Azerbaijan List of countries by Kurdish speaking population see article for full ... http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code kur title Ethnologue figure for Kurdish publisher Ethnologue.com ... alphabet Perso Arabic Kurdish alphabet Sorani alphabet Sorani alphabet in Iraq and Iran, Latin script Latin Kurdish alphabet Hawar alphabet Hawar alphabet in Turkey, Syria and Armenia Cyrillic script ... Sorani ll1 Sorani lc2 kmr ld2 Kurmanji ll2 Kurmanji lc3 sdh ld3 Southern Kurdish ll3 Southern Kurdish ... a North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki 58 AAA b Central Kurdish incl. Dimli Zaza & Gurani 58 AAA c South Kurdish incl. Kurdi notice IPA File Moderniranianlanguagesmap.jpg thumb Geographic distribution of the Kurdish language in turquoise KurdishKurdish Kurd or is a dialect continuum spoken ..., is one of its close modern relatives. The Kurdish language itself has about 16 ref name Ethnologue million speakers today. According to KONDA, 11,97 of total population of Turkey knows Kurdish ... , 9 of total population of Iran speaks Kurdish. ref cite web url https www.cia.gov library publications ... 2 December 2011 ref The actual number of ethnic Kurds is higher than speakers of Kurdish varieties ... of Kurdish and Iranic languages GIF image ref Kurdish does not exist as a unified standard ... today Kurdish has two regional standards, namely Kurmanji in the northern parts of the geographical ... to as Kurdish, or as Kurdic languages, because of the ethnic association of the communities speaking the languages and dialects. ref cite web url http www.britannica.com eb article 9046467 Kurdish language ... more details
KurdishpeopleKurdish women Kurdish language Kurdish Jin n Afiret n Kurd have traditionally played important roles in Kurdish history, society and politics. Image Lady Adela.jpg thumb 300px Lady Adela .... ref References reflist Category Kurdishpeople ... ad Din Bitlisi s 1597 Sharafn ma mentions three Kurdish women assuming power in Kurdish principalities . Evliya elebi also noted that Kurdish women did occasionally assume power in Kurdistan and Ottoman ... Kurdish Women contribution url editor last Joseph editor first Suad editor link editor2 last Najm b di ... after the suppression of Massacres of Badr Khan Bedir Khan revolt in 1847. A young Kurdish woman named ... and order in the region of Halabja is attributed to her sound judgement. ref W. Jwaideh, The Kurdish ... ref In Society and Literature According to the Kurdish writer Mahmud Bayazidi, the Kurdish women ... Kurdish literature, both matriarchal and patriarchal tendencies are found. In the Ballad of Las ... European travelers have mentioned that Kurdish women enjoyed more freedom than their Persian, Arab ... and guests , and female rulers. ref M. Galletti, Western Images of woman s role in Kurdish ..., 2001, pp.209 225. ref Vladimir Minorsky has reported several cases of Kurdish women running the affairs ..., pp.73 80, 1945. p.78 ref Kurdish Women in Iraq The prominent Kurdish poet Abdulla Goran Goran denounced discrimination and violence against women. The first journal for Kurdish women, Deng Afiret Woman s Voice , was published in 1953. Following the overthrow of monarchy in 1958, the Union of Kurdish ... civil control and abolishing honor killing. The first female judge in Middle East was a Kurdish woman ..., Kurdish women were kept in concentration camps and rape was used as a form of punishment. In 1994, Kurdish women marched for peace from Sulaimaniya to Arbil and protested against the civil war in Iraqi ... important figures in the Iraqi civil administration. ref name Women in the New Iraq Kurdish Women ... more details
as an official language alongside Arabic, acknowledges the national rights of the Kurdishpeople ... in Syria. http www.meib.org articles 0404 s1.htm See also Human rights of Kurdishpeople in Turkey ... under the Ottoman Empire History of the Kurdishpeople Notes Reflist 3 References Behrendt, G nter ... or region Kurds Category History of the Kurdishpeople Nationalism Category History of nationality ... 0 colspan 2 style text align center File Kurdish inhabited area by CIA 1992 .jpg 225px br Kurdish inhabited area by CIA 1992 . style text align left Language Kurdish language Kurdish style ... sq.mi style text align left Population 25 to 30 Million Kurdish Population Estimation Est. ref name FSU cite web accessdate 2007 03 17 url http www.xs4all.nl tank kurdish htdocs announce KSF.html title Kurdish Studies Program publisher Florida State University ref Kurdish nationalism is the political movement that holds that the Kurdishpeople are a nation deserving of a sovereign homeland, Kurdistan out of the territories where Kurdishpeople form a majority. Currently, these territories lie in northern Iraq , northwestern Iran , southeastern Turkey and small parts of Syria . Kurdish nationalism ... group. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurdish majority territories were divided between ... state. Kurdish nationalist movements been long suppressed by Turkey, Iran and the Arab majority ... of self governance but stopping short of full independence. Kurdish nationalism has long been espoused and promoted by the worldwide Kurdish diaspora . ref Curtis, Andy. http www.cs.uwaterloo.ca a2curtis papers 2004 kurdish diaspora.pdf Nationalism in the Diaspora a study of the Kurdish movement . ref History File Ancient Kurdistan.gif thumb left 170px Kurdistan in an antique map. The Kurdish nationalist ... of a Kurdish state. Revolts did occur sporadically but only decades after the Ottoman centralist policies of the 19th century began did the first modern Kurdish nationalist movement emerge with uprising ... more details
The Kurdish calendar was originally a lunisolar calendar related to the Babylonian calendar , but is now a solar calendar related to the Iranian calendar . Background The Kurdish calendar starts at 612 ... such important Kurdistan Kurdish sites as Asiab As yaw , Guran , Ganj e Dareh Genj Dara , and Ali ..., the present evidence strongly points to the foothill valleys along the Kurdish mountain ... belief closely related to their way of life. Many names that today remain in the modern Kurdish ... month, according to local needs. Some ancient Kurdish religious calendars begin with major religious ... Kurdish kingdom of the classical era, the House of Kayus or the K vusak n dynasty . An enigmatic ... in native Kurdish religions and would be the time needed for the reincarnation of the souls of departed ... Kurdish or M y I Median . Calendar The Ancient and religious calendar system in the Near East and the Middle ... Euphrates , were taken for six months at a time. The Proto Kurdish names for bipartition of the year still remain in the Kurdish language , passed down from the ancient Kurds who lived in Zagros ... five months , or the land of the coldness. Various Kurdish dialects also call Tawistan Tawsan ... state as in a place or state as in state of being . This suffix is used quite often in the Kurdish ..., Zimistu, Zimsu, Zimstun is made of Zim cold , the connective i , and the suffix stan. Today the Kurdish ... calendar March 20 or 21 . Like the Gregorian system, the Kurdish calendar divides the year ... month into four weeks and every week into seven days. In the Kurdish calendar the first six months ... with Gemini astrology Gemini , and so on. Kurdish months The Kurdish names for each month were designated depending on the geographical division and the lifestyle of specific Kurdish tribes . The name ..., is the Kurdish name of a star, which appears at this time of the year in the sky above Kurdistan. In northern areas of Kurdistan, the ban on Kurdish cultural and language education has diminished the significance ... more details
and blended it with other KurdishpeopleKurdish music. Siya Cheman can also be classified as rokb j ...Kurdish music refers to music performed in Kurdish language. Citation needed date August 2010 Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers storytelling storytellers rokb j , minstrel s stranb j and bard s dengb j . There was no specific music related to the Kurdish princely ... Lawik s which are heroic ballads recounting the tales of Kurdish heroes such as Saladin . Heyran s are love ... lines. Kurdish songs stran or goran are characterized by their simple melody melodies , with a range of only four or five notes. History Historically, Kurdish Music has very ancient roots that go back to the Hurrian period of Kurdish history. The Hurrians the ancestors of the modern Kurds were an ancient people that inhabited present day Kurdistan and established several kingdoms before their aryan ... . Kurdish musicians had a great role in the musical life of the Islamic caliphate. Ziryab was one among ... Tatlises. Kurds of Iran In Iran, Kurdish language and radio stations have generally been ... , though music has long been carefully scrutinised for political references. Kurdish music ... Khaleqi Sanandaj . Several Iranian Kurdish singers and musisians have been highly influential ... who was allowed to perform in Kurdish on the Iranian national radio, Shahram Nazeri Kermanshah 1950 ... Sanandaj . The Kamkars Baradaran e Kamkar from the city of Sanandaj is a leading ensemble in Kurdish music today. They are internationally renowned for their performance of Kurdish folk music and with great ... now resides in Sweden, performs Kurdish music from all genres. Ali Akbar Moradi is the greatest master ... support from the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan, and Kurdish artists and writers are encouraged to move and work there. One of the most important Iraqi Kurdish artists is Chopy Fatah singer ... the world more about the great Kurdish music. Aras Ibrahim violinist, built Martyr Karzan s music group ... more details
Kurdishpeople Kurds criticize Mustafa Kemal Atat rk for disregarding their cultural distinctions ... of Sunni religious zealots, some of whom were KurdishPeople Kurmanc Kurds . To most Kurmanc Kurds ... Government encouraged Kosovar Albanian s and Assyrian people Assyrians to settle in the Kurdish ..., Kurdish rebellions have been taking place in Anatolia for over two centuries. ref cite news url http www.turkishdailynews.com.tr article.php?enewsid 92683 title How many Kurdish uprisings till today .... Several other large scale Kurdish revolts occurred in Ararat and Dersim in 1930 and 1937 . ref ... Kurdish uprisings. Sabiha G k en , Turkey s first female pilot and the adopted daughter of Atat rk ... of Kurdish language in print and media. Atat rk believed the unity and stability of a country lay ..., particularly in regards to the Kurdish language, education, and media. Kurdish politicians and activists ... by the Kurds in a Kurdish region centered in Kurdistan . All this disappeared in the 1923 ... this time led by the Zaza cleric Sheikh Said , but organized by another, newer, Kurdish nationalist ... Deleted image removed Image KurdFighters02.jpg thumb right 300px Kurdish militants deletable ... and aggression of Kemalist secularism followed and all public manifestations of Kurdish ... Turkish Gendarmerie , the main Kurdish tribes participating in the rebellion came from Zaza . The rebellion ... 2011 . The Sheikh Said rebellion was the first large scale rebellion of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey. The main organizer of this rebellion was the Kurdish Independent Society, Azadi. Azadi ... military used air force against the rebels using five airplanes in Mardin . In October 1927, Kurdish ... expanse of Kurdish territory and the revolt was put down by the year 1930. Ararat rebellion, 1927 ... proclaimed Turkish Kurdistan Kurdish state. It was located in the east of modern Turkey , being ..., the Turkish Air Force was bombing Kurdish positions around Mt. Ararat from all directions. According ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2010 Kurdish tribes of Kurdistan consist of Azerbaijan Republic of Azerbaijan Sheylanli tribe West Azarbaijan Province Jalali tribe Jalali Milan tribe Milan Haydaran Donboli korahsuni Shekak Herki Bagz dah Zerz Piran tribe Pir n Pizhdar M mash Mangur Mokri Dehbokri Gowr g Malkari Suseni tribe Suseni Feizollah beigi Kurdistan Province Doski Sarshew Tilakui Sursuri Gashki Bashuki Kermanshah province Kalhor tribe Kalhor Zangana Sanj bi Guran tribe Guran Jaff people Jaff Bajalan Qalkh ni Sharaf bayani Ilam province Arkaw zi Kord Badrei Ali Sherwan Malek Shahi Shuhan Khezel Kalhor Eyvani Deh Balai Luristan province Biranavand Dilfan Kakavand Jalilavand Zand Mazandaran province Mod nlu Kh jevand Abdul Maleki Gilan province Am rlu Ri vand Khorasan province Zafer nlu Sh dlu Topk nlu Sewk nlu Qahram nlu Category Kurdish tribes ... more details
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