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Kurdistan: see under Kurds Kurdistan, an extensive plateau and mountain area, c.74,000 sq mi (191,660 sq km), in SW Asia, including parts of E Turkey, NE Iraq, and NW Iran and smaller sections of NE Syria and Armenia. The region lies astride the Zagros Mts. (Iran) and the eastern extension of the Taurus Mts. ..... Click the link for more information. . KurdistanBroad designation given to a mountainous region that includes parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Syria, inhabited predominantly by Kurds. Settlement is chiefly concentrated in the towns of Diyarbakir, Bitlis, and Van in Turkey, Mosul and Karkuk in Iraq, and Kermanshah in Iran. Since early times the region has been the home of the Kurds, a people whose ethnic origins are uncertain. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed in 1920, provided for the recognition of a Kurdish state, but the agreement was never ratified. Kurdistan, Kurdestan, Kordestan a large plateau and mountainous region, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, south of the Caucasus. Area: over 29 000 sq. km (74 000 sq. miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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3 on the Richter scale, hits the north-west provinces of Gilan, Tehran, Kurdestan, Qazvin, Zanjan and Hamedan, flattening nearly 100 remote mountain villages, killing at least 220 people, injuring at least 1,500 and leaving 25,000 homeless. 17, newspapers reported that Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, Khatami's cabinet secretary and former governor of Kurdestan, was given a six-month jail sentence for his criticism of the annulment by the Council of Guardians of elections in his province in 2000. |
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