Gutian dynasty persisted until the end of the 17th century BC As a matter of fact, the wholly negative opinion that even some modern historians have of the Gutians is based solely on a few stereotyped statements by the Sumerians &Akkadians, especially on theinscription of Utu-hegal of Uruk(c 2116-c2110).While Old Babylonian sources give the region between the Tigris&the Zagros Mountains as the home of the Gutians, these people probably also lived on the middle Euphrates during the 3rd millennuim
first mention of the Kurds in history was about 3,000 BC, under the name Gutium, as they fought the Summerians(Spieser)Later around 800 BC, the IndoEuropean Median tribes settled in the Zagros mountain region and coalesced with the Gutiums & thus the modern Kurds speak from as Aryan language (Morris). The Kurds are mentioned by Xenaphon, a Greek mercenary, as he retreated from Persia with ten thousand men in 401BChe says of the Kurds, "These people, lived in the mountains and were very war-like
Gutian dynasty persisted until the end of the 17th century BC As a matter of fact, the wholly negative opinion that even some modern historians have of the Gutians is based solely on a few stereotyped statements by the Sumerians &Akkadians, especially on theinscription of Utu-hegal of Uruk(c 2116-c2110).While Old Babylonian sources give the region between the Tigris&the Zagros Mountains as the home of the Gutians, these people probably also lived on the middle Euphrates during the 3rd millennuim
goran21715 4 months ago
first mention of the Kurds in history was about 3,000 BC, under the name Gutium, as they fought the Summerians(Spieser)Later around 800 BC, the IndoEuropean Median tribes settled in the Zagros mountain region and coalesced with the Gutiums & thus the modern Kurds speak from as Aryan language (Morris). The Kurds are mentioned by Xenaphon, a Greek mercenary, as he retreated from Persia with ten thousand men in 401BChe says of the Kurds, "These people, lived in the mountains and were very war-like
goran21715 4 months ago