The Kurds: History and Culture of the Kurdish (Medes/Median) People 2/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_...The Kurds are beside the Arabs, Persern and Armenians one of the oldest peoples of the region. The country populated by them is gennant Kurdistan. The Kurds have its own language, Kurdish. Kurdish belongs to the indo European language family and belongs beside the Persian one, Afghan one and Beludi to the group of the Iranian languages. With Arabic and the Turkish one Kurdish is not related. The Kurds are one of the oldest cultural peoples of the earth. Already more than four thousand years ago they were mentioned in sumerischen texts. In the antiquity could do one it under different names in which way the name „Kurd finally developed, about it argue the scholars until today. The Greeks called it Kurdons, the Assyrer called it Kardo and for the Armenians were it Kordoin.Der name Kurdistan emerge for the first time for the area between Aserbeidschan, Luristan and the western Zagros with the SeldjukenKurd independent people - genetically most closely related to Jews Kurds are genetically closest relatives of Jews: Kurds are from their original origin no Iranier, even if many believe, because Kurds speak today Iranian. There are Kurds however in areas, which inhabit her this very day, for a long time before oldest there living Indoiraniern. Newest gene studies prove. Kurds originally spoke also their own before indoeuropäische language. Iranian they assumed only around the center of the 1st millenium before Christ. The special to it: even their current Iranian shows still completely old roots (like full Ergativität), which ties as usual no other language until today at Basque. A still living before indoeuropäische language is Basque. Therefore also oldest Kurdish could being as old as Basque, estimated 2,500 years before Christ. And: Also it found population Genetiker out that Kurds are descendants of oldest field farmers from the Steinzeit in Kurdistan. Their ancestor along-invented thereby since approximately 10,000 before Christ substantially the modern agriculture as well as indoeuropäische languages develop and spread helped. Furthermore: Closest genetic relatives of Kurds are Jews. Prominent international researchers proved this such as Ariella Oppenheim, Almut fog or Marina Faerman in Israel. Among closer relatives of Jews and Kurds they rank also Armenians. All three peoples - Kurds, Jews and Armenians - belong to their conviction to also to founder civilizations in the Near East and Anterior Asia.The Kurds, an Iranian ethno-linguistic group--like Persians, Lurs, Baluch and Bakhtiari,--inhabit the mostly mountainous area where the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria converge. Following World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own country under the terms of the 1920 Treaty of Sevres only to find the offer rescinded under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Numbering at least 25 million people, Kurds are mostly divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The main area they inhabit is about 230,000 square miles, equal to German and Britain combined. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state. The term "Kurdistan" is widely used in Iraq to refer to the Kurdish area of northern Iraq and in Iran to refer to the Kurdish area of northwest Iran. Turkey and Syria, however, avoid this term for political reasons, although under the Ottomans it was widely used.The area of northern Iraq where Kurds predominate, is a region of about 83,000 square kilometers. This is roughly the same size as Austria. Smaller ethno-linguistic communities of Assyrian-Chaldeans, Turkomans, Arabs, and Armenians are also found in Iraqi Kurdistan. In Iraq there are approximately 3.7 million Kurds in the predominantly Kurdish northern safe haven area, and between 1 and 2 million in the rest of Iraq, particularly Baghdad, Mosul and that part of Iraqi Kurdistan still under the control of the Baghdad regime.(1)库尔德人： 库尔德人的人民的历史和文化 !!!De Koerden: Geschiedenis en Cultuur van de Koerdische Mensen !!!Los Kurds: Historia y cría de la gente kurda !!!Курды: История и культура курдских людей !!!Os Kurds: História e cultura dos povos curdos !!!Kurds: 쿠루디스탄 사람들의 역사 그리고 문화 !!!クルド人: クルドの人々の歴史そして文化 !!!I Kurds: Storia e coltura della gente curda !!!Οι Κούρδοι: Ιστορία και πολιτισμός των κουρδικών ανθρώπων !!Les Kurde: Histoire et culture des personnes Kurdes !! ماد מדי ميديونMedoj Mèdes Midiya Μήδοι Мідыя Medi Media (regio Asiae) 米底王國 米底王国 Medler Mga Medo Médie Meedia media 메디아 मीदि साम्राज्य meden メディア王国 Medowie Медија
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