Image Kurdishrug.jpg thumb 200px Kurdish couple displaying typical colorful handmade carpet Kurdishrugs lang ku are rugs woven by the Kurdish people 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 Kurdishrugs 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 KurdishRugs are stout and solid in structure, usually made in symmetrical knotting upon a woolen foundation. Design Kurdishrugs 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 . Kurdish people 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 KurdishRugs Category Kurdish culture Category Rugs and carpets Textile arts stub ... more details
Wiktionarypar Kurdish InterWiki code ku Kurdish lang ku Kurd may refer to The Kurdish people The Kurdish language The Kurdish alphabet Kurdistan , the land of the Kurdish people which includes Iranian Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan Turkish Kurdistan Syrian Kurdistan History of the Kurdish people Kurdish literature Kurdish music Yazidi , the religion of some Kurds KurdishrugsKurdish cuisine Kurdish culture disambig ar arc da Kurdisk de Kurdisch gl Curdo it Curdo ja pt Curdo ... more details
Seychour Rugs File Antique seychour Usethisone.jpg thumb A subtype of the Kuba rug, antique Seychour also known as Seichur and Zeychour rugs are made in the small town of Yukhari Zeykhur in Azerbaijan in the Northeast Caucasus . Prized for the detailed precision of their drawing and design as well as for their saturated colors, antique Seychour Carpet rugs popularly display designs such as cabbage rose and the Seychour cross. Differing from other Caucasian rugs, antique Seychour rugs do not share the same symmetry in their borders they do however, share a similar flat woven structure. In these particular rugs, one half of the knot is hidden. References Neff, Ivan C. and Carol V. Maggs. Dictionary of Oriental Rugs. London AD. Donker LTD, 1977. ISBN 13 9780949937353 Gans Ruedin, E. Caucasian Carpets. New York Rizzoli, 1986. ISBN 0253325552 Rugs and carpets Category Rugs and carpets ... more details
Image AWar Rugs 027.jpg thumb right Contemporary version of the Layla and Majnun story The war rug tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet war in Afghanistan Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 , and has continued through subsequent military, political and social conflicts. Afghan rug makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the Soviet Union invaded their country. They continue to do so today in the wake of the United States 2001 War in Afghanistan 2001 present invasion of Afghanistan which ousted the Taliban government of Mohammed Omar Mullah Omar but has failed to bring an end to taliban insurgency violence in the country . The rugs produced in response to these events are among the world s richest traditions of war art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The terms Baluch and war rug are generalisations given to the genre by rug dealers, commercial galleries, collectors, critics and commentators. The distinctive characteristic of these rugs is their capacity to convey their makers experiences and interpretations ... about the circumstances of war rugs production and distribution, or their makers intentions. Literature ... Rugs from Afghanistan ref http rugsofwar.wordpress.com 2004 04 29 rugsofwar bibliography Rugs of war bibliography ref External links http www.ucalgary.ca fyke war rugs Fyke Collection of Afghan War Rugs .... The rugs were donated to The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary by Robert Fyke July ... author Ron O Callaghan year 2003 url http www.rugreview.com stuf afgwar.htm title Afghan War Rugs A Sub ... Graham Gower year 2003 url http mysite.wanadoo members.co.uk afghanwarrugs title Afghan War Rugs format ... 18 cite web author Kevin Sudeith year 2002 url http www.warrug.com title Index of war rugs for research ... year 2009 url http www.caravancafe.it title War rugs, The Nightmare of Modernism format work publisher ... War rugs. References references Rugs and carpets DEFAULTSORT War Rugs Category Afghan rugs and carpets ... more details
File Antique alcaraz rug .jpg thumb Antique Alcaraz Rug After 1500, and following the expulsion of the Moors by Ferdinand II of Aragon King Ferdinand and Isabella I of Castile Queen Isabella , Spain Spanish carpet design began to prefer classically inspired European Renaissance styles to the middle eastern designs they had known. sup 1 sup Although the exact region to begin to produce the new style is not yet known, historians have attributed the move towards European design primarily to the Alcaraz in southern Castile . sup 2 sup When executed by the Alcaraz designers, European Renaissance styles over took the carpet field in the form of Acanthus ornament acanthus vinescrolls. On occasion, carpets motif visual arts motifs also included animal features within detailed design. sup 3 sup With the advance of European design, colors became more muted. sup 4 sup The shift in color palette was due to two main factors the loss of the Moors saw the loss of master dyers and new dyes on the market were being experimented with. Popular color schemes of 16th century Alcaraz design include dark green on green and dark yellow on yellow. sup 5 sup References reflist refbegin Gardiner, Roger F. Spuhler Revisited Further Thoughts on the West Berlin Rug Catalog. November, 1988. http www.rugreview.com orr 9 1 31.htm . Dimand, M.S. Two Fifteenth Century Hispano Moresque Rugs. 1964. http www.jstor.org pss 3258226 . Sherrill, Sarah B.Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America.New York Abbeville Press, 1996. ISBN 978 1 55859 383 1 refend External links http books.google.com books?id 6jODAAAAMAAJ&pg PA30&lpg PA30&dq alcarez rugs&source bl&ots 3pRhG5Mhv&sig WhgW2 7wgZVaEPAIiiNyQYrTrs&hl en&ei bQgDS KIN4WylAflhJXrAQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CBEQ6AEwAA v onepage&q &f false History of Hand woven European and American Rugs Rugs and carpets Category Rugs and carpets ... more details
factors in distinguishing Kurds from neighbouring Muslim populations. Kurdish dance has various and numerous versions such as following Dilan Sepe Geryan Chapi Kurdish dance Chapi Rug Main KurdishrugsKurdishrugs are rugs woven by the Kurdish people in the Middle East and the southernmost ...POV date December 2007 Kurdish culture Kurdish language Kurdish Kulturi Kurdi or and toreya kurd is a group of distinctive cultural traits practiced by Kurdish people. The Kurdish culture is a legacy from ancient peoples who shaped modern Kurdish people Kurds and their society, but primarily of two layers of indigenous Hurrian , and of the ancient Medes . The Kurdish culture is close ... is celebrated on March 21. Music Main Kurdish music Image Sivan Perwer.jpeg thumb 200px ivan Perwer , giving concert in Sweden, 2005 Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers ... music related to the Kurdish princely courts, and instead, music performed in night gatherings ... of Kurdish heroes of the past like Saladin . Heyran s are love ballads usually expressing the melancholy ... d lok nar nk , erotic poetry and work song s are also popular. Dance Main Kurdish dance Kurdish dance ... foundation. Religion Main articles Cultural Muslim , Yazidism , Yarsan , Yazdanism , Kurdish Jews , Kurdish Christians Image Great Mosque Diyabakir.jtpg thumb 220px The Great Mosque of Diyarbakir is the oldest ... date accessdate 2008 10 22 ref Before the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, a large part of the Kurdish population practised Christianity. Kurdish Christians can still be found in small numbers, especially in Iraqi Kurdistan. The History of the Kurds Kurdish kingdom of Adiabene , together with a large number of its Kurdish citizens, converted to Judaism during the 1st century BC. Tanna it Asenath ... Malak Ta us , the peacock angel of Yazidism religion In the 7th century, Arabs conquered the Kurdish .... There are also Kurdish Agnosticism Agnostics . Most Kurds have moderate tendencies toward religion ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Judaeo Kurdish is a popular language of the Kurdish Jews Jews of Kurdistan as Judaeo Kurdish of the Barzan Jews. ie lang stub Category Jewish languages ... 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 kurdish people Kurdish 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 Kurdish people 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 MEast myth stub category Kurdish mythology Category Kurdish culture ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2009 Kurdish cinema lang ku mainly evokes the poverty and sufferings of the Kurdish people 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 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 F lm n kurd tr K rt sinemas ... more details
Kurdish PEN or The Kurdish Centre of the International PEN Navenda PEN a Kurd in Kurdish language Kurdish is a branch of International PEN . It was voted into existence during International PEN s conference in Cambridge in 1988. Its headquarters are located in Cologne , Germany . The Kurdish PEN Center actively works with Kurdish writers in all parts of Kurdistan to promote the Kurdish language and Kurdish literature literature . The Center is headed by Dr. Zaradachet Hajo . Kurdish PEN publishes research articles related to Kurdish culture in four languages English language English , German language German , Spanish language Spanish and Kurdish language Kurdish . The Kurdish PEN is also active in Turkey , where it organized a conference on cultural diversity in March 2005 in Diyarbak r . It also encourages writers of International PEN to visit Kurdistan and meet Kurdish writers http www.cordite.org.au archives 001037.html . Founding Members Mehmed Uzun H seyn Erdem Yayla M nch Bucak Abdurrahman Nakshabandy H seyin Kartal Emine Erdem Haydar I ik External links http www.pen kurd.org index en.html Kurdish PEN http www.pen kurd.org englizi congress5.html The 5th Conference of the Kurdish PEN, Berlin, March 2003 http www.internationalpen.org.uk index.php?pid 33&aid 290 The International PEN seminar on Cultural Diversity, Diraybakir, March 2005 http www.pencanada.ca PEN Canada Category Kurdish people Category International PEN centers de Kurdisches P.E.N. Zentrum ... more details
Infobox Language name Southern Kurdish nativename Kurd Xuwarig states Eastern Iraq , Western Iran region Main in Western Iran, Kermanshah , Ilam Province , Eastern Iraq border with those provinces including Xanaqin , Kirind , and Qorwaq . speakers About 3,000,000 ref http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code sdh Ethnologue Kurdish, Southern ref in Iran and elsewhere. familycolor Indo European fam2 Indo Iranian languages Indo Iranian fam3 Iranian languages Iranian fam4 Western fam5 Northwestern fam6 Kurdish language Kurdish iso2 sdh iso3 sdh map Southern Kurdish Southern Kurdish Kurd Xuwarig , also called Gorani language Gorani , 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 Kirma an and 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 Kurdish people Kurdish 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 , Kermanshahi Kirma an , Kalhuri , Garrusi Gerr s Bijari , Sanj bi Sencab , Malekshahi Melik ay , Beyrey or Mahaki which is a sub dialect of Feyli and Feyli ilami . It had around 3 million speakers in Iran in 2000 . ref http www.ethnologue.com ...?name IQ Ethnologue Languages of Iraq ref Southern Kurdish dialects, such as Laki language Laki ... By Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach ref File SOUTHERN KURDISH.JPG thumb left 400px Southern Kurdish Area See also 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 Category Kurdish language Kurdish language Iranian languages ie lang stub de S dkurdische Sprache fa ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Kurdish American population 9,423 2000 census ref cite web author US Census Bureau title The Arab Population 2000 url http www.census.gov prod 2003pubs c2kbr 23.pdf accessdate 2010 11 14 ref br 20,000 http assembly.coe.int Main.asp?link Documents WorkingDocs Doc06 EDOC11006.htm popplace Tennessee , Virginia , California , Texas 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 Kurdish people Kurdish descent, the majority of Kurdish Americans are recent migrants. Often they are immigrants and political refugees from the countries of Iran , Iraq , Syria and Turkey . Although Kurds in the U.S. are more numerous in California esp. the Los Angeles area , Massachusetts , New Jersey , New York , Texas and Virginia , the city of Nashville, Tennessee Nashville , Tennessee has the United States largest population of Kurdish people, estimated to be around 11,000. References Reflist 3 Middle Eastern American Categories Category Ethnic groups in the United States ethno group stub US stub Category American people of Kurdish descent ... more details
The Kurdish Globe , previously known as The Hewler Globe , is the first English language English language newspaper published in Arbil , Iraqi Kurdistan Region Kurdistan , northern Iraq . Published for the first time on March 31, 2005, its editing Editor in Chief and founder is Jawad Qadir. The name was changed from The Hewler Globe to The Kurdish Globe since the paper included issues of a pan Kurdish nature, including all parts of Kurdistan in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, and not just Hewl r Kurdish language Kurdish for Arbil . This weekly newspaper is published every Tuesday. It focuses primarily on Kurdish issues ranging from politics to culture, as well as Middle East related issues and politics. Its main rival is SOMA Digest , the second English language newspaper published in the Kurdistan region. Whereas The Kurdish Globe is edited from the point of view of the Kurdistan Regional Government , SOMA Digest is closely related to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK . External links http www.kurdishglobe.net Official website br iraq stub Asia newspaper stub DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Globe Category Newspapers published in Iraq Category English language newspapers published in Arab countries category Arbil ... more details
File Kurdish Language Map.PNG thumb 350px Distribution of Kurdish dialects Kurdish dialects are dialects of the Kurdish language . They are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from the various standardised forms of Kurdish. Classification The Kurdish language and its dialects are part of the Northwestern Iranian languages group. The following macrodialects are commonly described for Kurdish although the debate continues whether some or indeed all of these should be classified as languages Kurmanji Northern Kurdish The branch with the most speakers, spoken in Turkey , Syria , Iraq , Iran , Armenia and the Lebanon . It has an estimated 8 10 million speakers and has been written in the Latin alphabet since the 19030s. Its main dialects are engal Mosul , Judikani Central Anatolia Qerejdax Urfa , Qamishlo etc Botan Boxt Botan , Serhedk Western Azerbaijan , Van, Erzurum, Kars, A r , Mu usw. , Hekkar Hakkari , Behd n Duhok, Iraq Dahuk and Western Azerbaijan Tor Mardin and Siirt Xerz Batman, Turkey Batman and Siirt Qochan Greater Khorasan Chorasan Birjand Chorasan Elburz Dailam Western Kurmanji Marashk Kahramanmara , Gaziantep , Sivas , Dersim , Adiyaman etc Central Kurmanji around Diyarbakir Sorani Central Kurdish Spoken to the South of the Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdish areas and in Western Iran by approx. 5 million speakers. It is written in a Kurdish variant of the Perso Arabic script but also in a Latin based system. Hewl r in Arbil , Pishdar s dlich von Arbil Xaneq n in Chanaqin , Mukr in Mukriyan , Sil man Soran Baban in Sulaimania , Erdelan in Ardalan , Siney in Sanandaj , Warmawa nord stlich ... Hamadan Southern Kurdish Southern Kurdish diverges considerably from the other branches. Its main ... and Xacevend in Mazandaran References reflist Kurdish language Iranian languages Iraq topics de Kurdische Sprachen ku Kurmanc DEFAULTSORT Kurdish dialects Category Kurdish language Category Languages ... more details
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 , Kurmanji and Sorani . Ali Hariri 1009 1079 ref A Kurdish grammar descriptive analysis of the Kurdish ... 0 8448 1727 9, p.176 ref ref http www.kurdishacademy.org ?q node 51 Kurdish Literature , Kurdish ... of the first well known poets who wrote in Kurdish. He was from the Hakkari region ref http www.institutkurde.org ... in some sources as a branch of Kurdish http www.kurdishacademy.org english literature literature.html ... by others. http www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk siamakr Kurdish Papers Hassanpour98.html . Kurmanji Literature ... be considered as the oldest piece of prose in Kurmanji. The Kurdish poet Muhammad Faqi Tayran 1590 ... known and most popular of the classical Kurdish poets ref cite encyclopedia last KREYENBROEK first PHILIP G. title KURDISH WRITTEN LITERATURE encyclopedia Encyclopedia Iranica accessdate 2009 06 ... 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 Kurdish people. Mam of the Alan clan ... in Kurdish and for many decades. This in turn lead to an appearance of several Kurdish writers ... of Kurdish prose in the 20th century. The first modern latin based alphabet for Kurdish was created ... literary works in Kurdish. The amount of printed material during the last three decades ... where many of the immigrant Kurds are living. There are a number of Kurdish publishers in Sweden, partly supported by the Swedish Government . More than two hundred Kurdish titles have appeared in the 1990s. Some of the well known contemporary Kurdish writers from Turkey are Firat Cewer , Mehmed ... Ayebe and Ehmed Ron ar . The main academic center for Kurdish literature and language in Europe is the Kurdish Institute of Paris Institut Kurde de Paris founded in 1983. A large number of Kurdish ... more details
Infobox Language name Kurdish nativename , Kurd , Kurd , ref http www.kurdishacademy.org ?q node 41 Kurdish Language Kurdish Academy of Language ref familycolor Indo European states flag Turkey ... Turkmenistan br flag Pakistan List of countries by Kurdish speaking population see article for full ...?code kur Ethnologue figure for Kurdish ref to 35 million Citation needed date February 2011 ... Western Iranian fam5 Northwestern Iranian languages Northwestern Iranian script Kurdish alphabet Kurdish alphabet Sorani Alphabet modified Perso Arabic alphabet in Iraq and Iran, Kurdish alphabet ... ckb ld1 Sorani ll1 Sorani lc2 kmr ld2 Kurmanji ll2 Kurmanji lc3 sdh ld3 Southern Kurdish ll3 Southern Kurdish lc4 lki ld4 Laki ll4 Laki language This code isn t part of the macrolanguage per SIL lingua 68 AAA a, 68 AAA c File Moderniranianlanguagesmap.jpg thumb Geographic distribution of the Kurdish language in turquoise KurdishKurdish Kurd or is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western ... of the Geographic Distribution of Kurdish and Iranic languages GIF image ref There does not exist any single Kurdish language per se. What exists is the concept, a discursive construct of such a language .... In its written form today Kurdish has two regional standards, namely Kurmanji in the northern ... also described and referred to as Kurdish, or as Kurdic languages, because of the ethnic ... 9046467 Kurdish language Kurdish language Britannica Online Encyclopedia ref Hewrami , a variation ..., index. p444 ref Origin and roots The Kurdish languages belong to the Iranian languages Iranian branch of the Indo European languages Indo European family. Systematic comparison of Kurdish with other Iranian languages shows that Kurdish is a northwestern Iranian language. ref Bruinessen, M.M. van ... Kurdish nationalism and competing ethnic loyalties ref The present state of knowledge about Kurdish ... of the contemporary Kurdish dialects was formed. The most argued hypothesis on the localisation ... more details
Kurdish people Kurdish 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 ... Kurdish Dress The traditional Kurdish dresses ref A Kurd in traditional dress from the Caucasus Region .... The Kurdish costume was worn everyday 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 a vest ... beneath the gown. A belt over the gown is also needed. Traditionally women wore Kurdish hats ornamented .... The gown 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 Kurdish people. 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 ... Kurdish gold jewellery Traditional jewellery is gold, with gold charms and traditional amber, red ... belt but the coins are inexpensive unlike the Lira coins. The 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 ... who specialize in making Kurdish clothes. Recently these respected tailors have turned into designers ... and modern Kurdish styles ref About Dilla http www.dellalondon.co.uk about ref . There are so many different styles of the Kurdish dress clothes today that in recent years there have been many fashion ... more details
Kurdish Christians Kurdish language Kurdish lang ku Kurd n Xir st ref http ku.wiktionary.org wiki xir C3 AEstiyan Xir st in Kurdish Wiktionary ref are Kurdish people 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 ... , Armenian people Armenians or Georgian people Georgians . The total number of Kurdish Christians today ... ref . Christianity began to become a main religion in the central part of Kurdish regions from ..., University of London, 1922, p.208 ref . Many Kurdish Christians converted to Islam after the Arab conquest of the Sassanid Empire . However, there were Kurdish converts to Christianity even after the spread ... of the Byzantine Empire, Slavic Review , p.111, 1968. ref During the same period, the Kurdish prince ... Kurdish Christian communities and tribes reported by medieval writers as late as the 10th ref http ... AD, Kurdish Christian soldiers comprised 2.7 of the army of fortress city of Shayzar in present ... century, 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 ... of the Royal Geographical Society reported about a Kurdish tribe in Sivas which retained certain ... Society, 1884, p.313 ref It is also possible that many Kurdish Christians have been linguistically ... and Germany began to serve the Kurds of Iran. From 1911 to 1916, it established a Kurdish Wiktionary ... ref One of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in Iraqi Kurdistan , Ahmed Barzani Sheikh Ahmed Barzani ... against the Iraqi 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 ... agencies offered help to Kurdish refugees, who were amazed that the assistance came from Christians ... . The Kurdish Speaking Church of Christ The Kurdzman Church of Christ was established in Hewl r Arbil ... more details
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 East 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 , Kurdish people 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 Islam Muslim populations ref Kurds, Kurdistan , Part 4. Dances and music, The Encyclopedia of Islam, Edited by C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, B. Lewis & CH. Pellat, Vol. V, KHE MAHI, Leiden, E.J. 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 got ... place. Some kinds of these rhythms wear out and are forgotten through the passage of time. Kurdish ... many ages. You can have 3 years old and 83 year olds in the same line at a party. Some Kurdish dances ... liking . Chapi comes from the word chep or chap meaning left . It is one of the more simple Kurdish ... aspects of this dance have been inspired from Kurdish people Kurdish traditions such as the Kurdish Dance and added to the dance to create what we know now. Notes references 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 ... more details
Kurdish rebellion may refer to The Sheikh Ubeydullah Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century The Kurdish rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in World War I 1914 1918 The First Mahmud Barzanji Revolt where in the Kingdom of Kurdistan was declared 1919 1922 The military campaign led by Simko Shikak to capture all of Iran 1919 1922 The Ko kiri Rebellion in Dersim region of Turkey 1920 1921 The Second Mahmoud Barzani Revolt after his return to Iraq 1923 1932 The Sheikh Said rebellion in Diyarbakir and Mardin province Mardin regions of Turkey 1925 The Sheikh Abdurrahman rebellion in Bing l Province Bing l , Erzurum Province Erzurum and Mardin regions of Turkey 1927 The Ararat rebellion in the A r province of Turkey when the Republic of Ararat was declared 1927 1930 The Dersim rebellion in the Dersim region of Turkey 1937 1938 The Iranian invasion of the Autonomous Republic of Mahabad 1946 The First Kurdish Iraqi War 1961 1970 The Second Kurdish Iraqi War 1974 1991 which includes the Kurdish participation in the Iran Iraq War and the 1991 uprisings in Iraq The Riots and armed conflict in Kurdistan province of Iran during and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution 1979 1982 The Turkey PKK Conflict which started in 1978 and includes two uprisings 1984 1999 and 2004 present disambig ... 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 people of Kurdish origin in Turkey, Iran, Iraq or anywhere in the world and Kurds from Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous republic. 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 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 Black, sweetened tea is the favorite choice of drink. Another drink is mastaw two tablespoons of yoghurt in a glass of cold water. 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 , kuki meat and or vegetable ... Middle East ref Savar , a traditional dish among Kurdish farmers, is made of wheat grain that is boiled ... eq abt wv48J www.saradistribution.com sharistani.htm kurdish food&cd 6&hl en&ct clnk The food that launched ... Kurdish, Life Style, The Guardian ref Breakfast A typical Kurkish breakfast consists of cheese ... 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 th ... more details
Kurdish people Kurdish 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 ... 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 Bedir Khan revolt in 1845. A young Kurdish woman named Fatma became chief ... of Halabja is attributed to her sound judgement ref W. Jwaideh, The Kurdish national movement its ... According to the Kurdish writer Mahmud Bayazidi, the Kurdish women did not veil and they participated ... place Moscow USSR publisher volume pages id isbn doi oclc url ref . In traditional Kurdish literature ... have mentioned that Kurdish women enjoyed more freedom than their Persian, Arab or Turkish counterparts ... , and female rulers ref M. Galletti, Western Images of woman s role in Kurdish society in Women .... ref . Vladimir Minorsky has reported several cases of Kurdish women running the affairs of their tribes ... 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 Women lobbied for legal ... honor killing. The first female judge in Middle East was a Kurdish woman named Zakiyya Hakki ... Rubin, Global Politician , September 2008. ref . During the Anfal campaign in 1988, Kurdish women were kept in concentration camps and rape was used as a form of punishment. In 1994, Kurdish women marched ... in the Iraqi civil administration ref name Women in the New Iraq . Kurdish Women in Turkey Image ..., Kurdish women formed their first organization, the Society for the Advancement of Kurdish Women , in Istanbul ... 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
0 colspan 2 style text align center Image Kurdish inhabited area by CIA 1992 .jpg 225px br Kurdish inhabited areas. style text align left Language Kurdish language Kurdish style text align ... 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 mostly surrounds the Kurdish people Kurdish secession ist cause for an independent Kurdistan . Kurdish nationalism is significantly cultivated in 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 The Kurdish ... the establishment 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 led by a Kurdish landowner and head of the powerful Shemdinan family, Sheik Ubeydullah ..., Hakan. Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting ... with other notables, were exiled to Istanbul. The Kurdish nationalist movement that emerged following ... of authority which threatened the power of local chieftain s and Kurdish autonomy, and rampant .... ref name natali cite journal title Ottoman Kurds and emergent Kurdish nationalism journal Critique ... they would act as guarantors for Kurdish freedom, a promise they subsequently broke. One particular ... was central to the forging of a distinct Kurdish identity. It took advantage of period of political ... 1920 of Turkey to transform a renewed interest in Kurdish culture and language into a political nationalist ... Turkish coup d tat . ref name laciner The 1970s saw an evolution in Kurdish nationalism as Marxist political thought influenced a new generation of Kurdish nationalists opposed to the local feudal ... more details
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