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4 unusual facts about Kurdistan


Kurdish PEN

The Kurdish PEN Center actively works with Kurdish writers in all parts of Kurdistan to promote the Kurdish language and literature.

Memi Alan

Nasir Hassan, the director of the successful drama said, "Memi Alan" is the most substantial and the most sophisticated artistic work ever done in Kurdistan.

Newcastle Gateshead Medical Volunteers

The charity arranges regular visits to the Kurdistan region of Iraq to provide needed clinical expertise to local residents including organisation of outpatient clinics, performing surgical operations and arranging basic teaching and training courses for medical students and Kurdish health-care professionals.

Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

The festival showcases films about Jewish communities of the Mediterranean and Asia, including Morocco, Yemen, Ethiopia, Kurdistan, Iran/Persia and India, as well as the Sephardi descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain.


Ahmad Hardi

His daughter Choman Hardi is a well known Kurdish writer and his son Asos Hardi is a prominent journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan and founder of Hawlati and Awena independent newspapers.

Ahmad Kazemi

After the victory of the Revolution and establishment of AGIR (Sepah) in 1980, He joined the Sepah and went to Kurdistan in 1981 to suppress the domestic enemies of the revolution.

Aishanids

Aishani or Aisani, or Aishiya (عیشانیه، عیسانیه) was a Kurdish dynasty that ruled 912–961 A.D. (300–350 A.H.) in parts of Kurdistan (western Iran) in areas such as Dinawar, Hamadan, Samghan, Sharizur etc. as far as Azarbaijan.

Ali Bapir

Ali Bapir, also called Mamosta Ali Bapir and Sheikh Ali Bapir (in Kurdish: مامۆستا عه‌لی باپیر, in Arabic: الشيخ علي بابير)is a well known man in Iraqi Kurdistan, born 1961 in the Peshdar region, Iraqi Kurdistan.

Ann-Kristin Kowarsch

In the process, she became familiar with Kurdish issues and learned to speak Kurmanji and in the same year, she visited Kurdistan for the first time in a trip to the city of Amadiya.

Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari

Between 1980 and 1991, General Babakir commanded the Shekhan and Aqra districts in Kurdistan.

Bahá'í pilgrimage

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, also known as the "Most Great House" (Bayt-i-A'zam) and the "House of God," is where Bahá'u'lláh lived from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years when he left to the mountains of Kurdistan, northeast of Baghdad, near the city of Sulaymaniyah).

Bahá'í timeline

April 10, Bahá'u'lláh retreats to the Sulaymaniyah mountains within Kurdistan due to a rising tensions between Mírzá Yahyá and himself.

Chopy Fatah

Chopy supported in 2009 the Democratic Society Party DTP (the current BDP Peace and Democracy Party) by sending an official letter to its leader Ahmet Türk where she explained that she will do everything in her power to support the peaceful solution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey (North-Kurdistan).

Corduene

19th-century scholars, such as George Rawlinson, identified Corduene and Carduchi with the modern Kurds, considering that Carduchi was the ancient lexical equivalent of "Kurdistan".

Darfur national football team

Ben Holden of Bradford, UK, became the team's assistant coach in May 2012 to help manage the team at the 2012 Viva World Cup in Iraq/Kurdistan.

George Martin Lees

From 1928 to 1930, Lees examined the company organisation and oil prospects in Germany, Canada, Egypt and the United States, as well as surveying fields in Kermanshah and Iraqi Kurdistan.

GKP

Gulf Keystone Petroleum, oil and gas exploration company operating in Iraqi Kurdistan

Hikmet Fidan

Fidan had been working to form an alternative organization called the Patriotic Democratic Party (Partîya Welatparêzên Demokratên Kurdistan (PWD) with Osman Ocalan, brother of the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

J. J. Benjamin

He then traveled through Syria, Babylonia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Indies, Kabul, and Afghanistan, returning June, 1851, to Constantinople, and then back to Vienna where he stayed briefly before heading to Italy.

Kalar, Iraq

Kalar (Kurdish:که‌لار, Kelar ) is a town in Iraqi Kurdistan located on Sirwan (Diyala) river, to the east of Kifri and to the west of Qasri Shirin and Sarpol Zahab in Kermanshah Province in east Kurdistan.

Karen Ramey Burns

She worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau Massacre and trial in Haiti, the Río Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the identification of the Kazimierz Pułaski remains in Savannah, Georgia, United States.

Kurdish calendar

In the early Neolithic (sometimes called the Mesolithic) period, evidence of significant shifts in tool making, settlement patterns, and subsistence living including nascent domestication of both plants and animals, which comes from such important Kurdish sites as Asiab (Asíyaw), Guran, Ganj-e Dareh (Genjí Dara), and Ali Khosh (Elí xosh).

Kurdistan Islamic Union

The violence quickly spread throughout the Bahdinan area of Iraqi Kurdistan, to nearby Dohuk, and eventually as far as way as the south-eastern Sorani city of Sulaymaniyah.

Mahabad

As Muhamed Amin Zaki in his book, A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan, during regional conflicts between Kara Koyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu, the Mukri kurds gained power in the fertile valleys of south of Lake Urmia.

Mehrdad Izady

"The Geopolitical Realities of Kurdistan vs. Hopes for a New World Order" in Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, Edited by Phyllis Bennis, Michel Moushabeck, Interlink Pub Group Inc, pp. 538, 1998.

Mirawdale

Some are located in Iranian Kurdistan near the town of Sardasht.

Mount Arbaba

Mount Arbaba (Arbeba, Erbeba, ئاربه‌با) is a mountain near the city of Baneh, in Iranian Kurdistan.

Mount Taragha

Mount Taragha (Terexe, ته‌ره‌غه‌) is a mountain 20 km from the city of Bukan, near a village of the same name, in Iranian Kurdistan.

Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan

This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments in 1996, a KDP-controlled one in Arbil and a PUK-controlled one in as-Sulaymaniyah, each with their own Prime Minister.

Qaladiza

Qaladiza or Qeladze is a town of 114,000 inhabitants in the Kurdistan Regional Government region in Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Sulaymaniyah, near the Iranian border.

The whole town was devastated during the Iraq and Iran War and all residents were relocated to Bazian and other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, but most of them in Bazzian, a small town located west of Sulaminia.

Ray Lee Hunt

In September 2007, Hunt struck an oil deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government in the disputed territories of Ninewa near the Dohuk Governorate with an estimated value of $8 to $14.5 billion.

Rozhnama

Rozhnama was founded in 2007 at the behest of Nawshirwan Mustafa, who claimed he wanted a daily newspaper in the Kurdistan region which had complete editorial independence.

Sherwana Castle

Sherwana Castle, also known as Shirwanah Castle, was built by Mohamed Pasha Jaff and is located in Kalar, Kurdistan, Iraq.

Slemani Polytechnic University

Slemani Polytechnic University ( SPU) زانكؤى بؤليته كنيكى سليَمانى is a public university which is located in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Qirga District in Kurdistan Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Sonqori dialect

Sonqori, also known as Sonqori Turkic, is an Iranian dialect of Azerbaijani spoken alongside Kurdish in Sonqor (Sunqur), east of Kermānšāh, in a large valley separated from the rest of Kurdistan.

Task Force Viking

One of the injured was Wajih Barzani, the brother of Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The Other Iraq

Douglas Layton, - Originator or THE OTHER IRAQ concept and public relations campaign and the Country Director of Kurdistan Development Corporation during the campaign

Brendan O'Leary, Constitutional Adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government

H.E. Masoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq said: "The United States has never wavered in its quest to help Iraqis build a democracy that rewards compromise and consensus. The ever generous American people have paid a tragic price, the lives of their finest men and women, to advance the banner of freedom and democracy, a sacrifice for which we are profoundly grateful."

UNGCI

After a short training period in Baghdad, the guards moved initially to Erbil and Dohuk (in the northern part of Iraq) and were assigned to serve mostly in Kurdistan under three Sectors (Dohuk, Erbil, Sulaimaniyah), though some service was performed in the south of the country, in the area of Basra city.

William Nobrega

A former member of Army Special Forces who handled military operations in Kurdistan, Mr Nobrega's academic background includes a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Leuven and a bachelor's degree from Ohio University.

YNK

Yeketî Niştîmanî Kurdistan, (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) a Kurdish political party


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