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"The Kurds are an ethnic group who consider themselves to be indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Kurdish communities can also be found in Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh) and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States (see Kurdish diaspora). Ethnically related to other Iranian people groups[9] they speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch.
Historically, the Kurds have continuously sought self-determination, and have fought the Sumerians, Assyrians, Persians, Mongols, European crusaders, and Turks.[10] Estimated at about 30 million people, the Kurds comprise one of the largest ethnic groups in the world that do not have a nation-state of their own. In the 20th century, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq have put down many Kurdish uprisings.[11]" 1
2006-12-01 04:36:17
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answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7
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The Kurds are also known for killing thousands upon thousands of innocent Assyrians during the Assyrian Genocide, all because the Assyrians were Christians while the Kurds were not. Kurds massacred the Assyrian, the indigenous people of Iraq to gain their kurdistan. Today the world is compassionate to Kurds who have suffered, but not as badly as Assyrians. Assyrians are virtually wiped out, leaving only 4 million alive presently. A nation that once ruled Mesopotamia now does not have its own country.
2006-12-01 14:38:28
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answered by ImAssyrian 5
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There is a lot of info available this is just a small sampling:
History of the Kurdish people
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The history of the Kurds stretches from ancient times to the present day. The Kurds are an ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the mountainous areas of the northern Middle East (Zagros and Taurus mountain ranges), a geographical area collectively referred to as Kurdistan. This area covers northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Kurds are also found in southwestern Armenia and an enclave in Azerbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh). They are also found in northeastern Iran in Khorasan. The Kurds speak the Kurdish language.
Origins
With regard to the origin of the Kurds, it was formerly considered sufficient to describe them as the descendants of the Carduchi, who opposed the retreat of the Ten Thousand through the mountains in the 4th century BC. Modern research traces them far beyond the period of the ancient Greeks . However, there is evidence of more ancient settlements in the region of Kurdistan. The earliest known evidence of a unified and distinct culture (and possibly, ethnicity) by people inhabiting the Kurdish mountains dates back to the Halaf culture of 6,000 BC to 5,400 BC. This was followed by the spread of the Ubaidian culture, which was a foreign introduction from Mesopotamia. In 1927, Ephraim Speiser discovered remains of ancient Halaf and Ubaid settlements in Tepe Gewre (Great Mound) 24 km northeast of Mosul. These settlements date back to between the 5th and 2nd millennium B.C., and include 24 levels of civilizations including Halaf and Ubaid. This site includes an acropolis with monumental remains and fine architecture .
In their own histories, they are proud to mention the Hurrian period in the mid third millennium BC as the earliest well documented period. The 3rd millennium was the time of the Guti and Hattians. The 2nd and 1st millennium BC were the time of the Kassites, Mitanni, Mannai (Mannaeans), Urartu, and Mushku. All of these peoples shared a common identity and spoke one language or closely related languages or dialects. These groups are thought to have been non-Indo-Europeans, apart from the original [Mitanni]] leadership. Kurds consider themselves to be Indo-European as well as descendants of the above groups. According to the Encyclopaedia Kurdistanica, Kurds are the descendants of all those who have historically settled in Kurdistan, not of any one particular group. A people such as the Guti (Kurti), Mede, (Mard) Carduchi, (Gordyene), Adiabene, Zila and Khaldi signify not the ancestor of the Kurds but only one ancestor . ........
Hurrian Period
Here is some info on the genetic origin.
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Genetic origins of the Kurds
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The genetic origins of the Kurds is of great debate. A few genetic tests have been carried out recently in order to explore the origin of Jews and Kurds. These tests suggested some positive and negative genetic correlations between Kurds and other ethnic groups. However, there exist more variations among Kurds than variations between Kurds and other races. Nevertheless, the outcome of such genetic studies were widely discussed in the Jewish and Kurdish media.
The outcome of genetic studies
Genetic testings amongst randomly chosen Kurdish populations has began to shed light into the disparate origins of the Kurds. The results reveal a variety of connections amongst the Kurds including regional variations and different links to the past when assessing paternal and maternal lineages. In the overall sense, the Kurds share some genetic ties to other speakers of Iranian languages as well as with various peoples from the Caucasus such as the Armenians which suggests that the Kurds have ancient ethnic ties that connect them to both the early inhabitants, including the Hurrians, as well as various Aryan tribes, such as the Medes, not unlike the aforementioned Armenians themselves who are also a composite group and the Georgians, another Caucasian people, which may, in part, link the Kurds genetically to the Hurrians.
Connection with the Georgian People
Mitochondrial DNA sequences from Georgians and Kurds were analyzed in order to test the possible correlation between female lineages and languages in these two neighboring West Eurasian groups. Mitochondrial sequence pools in both populations are very similar despite their different linguistic and prehistoric backgrounds. Both populations present mtDNA lineages that clearly belong to the European gene pool, as shown by
similar nucleotide and sequence diversities;
a large number of sequences shared with the rest of European samples;
nonsignificant genetic distances; and
classification of the present lineages into the major European mtDNA haplogroups already described.
The outlier position of the populations from the Caucasus according to classical genetic markers is not recognized in the present Georgian mtDNA sequence pool. This result suggests that the differentiation of mtDNA sequences in West Eurasia and the outlier features of Caucasian populations should be attributed to different processes. Moreover, the putative linguistic relationship between Caucasian groups and the Basques, another outlier population within Europe for classical genetic markers, is not detected by the analysis of mtDNA sequences.
It should be noted that the Caucasian family is merely a geographical expression and not a linguistic reality. Caucasian languages in fact comprise two families, Kartvelian and North Caucasian; Georgian is a member of the former, while members of the latter include Kabardian, Adyghe, Chechen, Ingush and Lezgian. The relationship of Kartvelian to Basque has been suggested but not proven; historical linguists generally reject the notion. Georgian and Kurdish are likewise unrelated; the Kurdish languages are members of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. Their closest linguistic relatives include Persian, Ossetian, Pashto and Baluchi. Georgian is, of course, non-Indo-European. Needless to say, any correlation between biological and linguistic relationships is tangential at best. The evolution of human beings and that of human languages are for the most part independent, although they can occur in parallel wherever there happens to be both biological and linguistic continuity." .....
There is a lot more in Wikspedia webpage.
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Also some info from folklore and their connection with Noah's Ark
*** g75 9/8 pp. 17-19 What About the Search for Noah’s Ark? ***
They Claim They Have Seen It
Many insist that the ark still remains on Mount Ararat. There is, for example, the folklore of Kurdish tribes who tend their flocks on the lower slopes of Ararat during the summer. More than one foreign explorer, however, has learned, to his chagrin, that native porters refuse to ascend the mountain beyond a certain point. Above that is thought to be a “magic zone.” Superstitions hold that, while the ark is up there, God will not allow any human to approach it. ........
2006-12-01 15:06:03
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answered by THA 5
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