Land Of The Kurds - Part 01 - Brief History Of Kurdistan

UPDATED VERSION: Part 01 of a documentary concerning the Kurdish struggle for Independence from post WWI to the present day. The presentation deals primarily with Kurdistan Of Iraq, the effect of the American Liberation and the Al-Anfal campaign of genocide against the Kurds of Iraq by the former Iraqi Regime of Saddam Hussein. 4000 Kurdish Villages were destroyed, hundreds of thousands were killed, many more were imprisoned, tortured or "Relocated." The conclusion focuses on becoming a part of the Solution, not the Problem.

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[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz lol Subartu was apparently a polity in Northern Mesopotamia,at the upper Tigris,in the general sphere of influence of the Hurrians.Its precise location has not been identified.According to some scholars like Harvard Professor Mehrdad Izady,identifies Subartus with the current Kurdish tribe of Zibaris inhabiting the northern ring around Mosul up to Hakkari From the point of view of the Akkadian Empire,Subartu marked the northern geographical horizon,just as Martu,Elam &Sumer

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz In regards to whether Halaf Culture is original homeland of the Kurdsarchaeologists point out that shared pottery is an effective method to classify prehistoric cultures in the Middle E.By determining the boundaries of Halaf Culture,archaeologists are almost certain that they match with the geographical area that modern Kurds consider their homeland: from Afrin to Lake Van&from Kirmanshah to Adyaman.Besides,it is highly unlikely that the inhabitants of HalafCulture were immigrants

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz the earliest evidence associated to a distinct culture shaped by the inhabitants of the Kurdish mountains is traced during the period of the Halaf Culture (6000BC-5000 BC). Named after the site of Tell Halaf in northeast Syria (today's Syrian Kurdistan), the Halaf Culture was known for its exceptionally sophisticated pottery. Delicately painted and designed, Halaf pottery has been found from Iran to southeast Turkey and it is easily recognizable.

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz Evidence dating back to 6300 BC shows that the Hurrian people were among the oldest of Kurdish ancestors to inhabit the mountains of Kurdistan.(Today, the Hurrian name is survived by the present Kurdish region of Hawraman.)

2500 BC:

Indo-European tribes begin migrating in small numbers and settle across the Zagros mountains of Mesopotamia.

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz Subartu was apparently a polity in Northern Mesopotamia, at the upper Tigris, in the general sphere of influence of the Hurrians. Its precise location has not been identified. According to some scholars like Harvard Professor Mehrdad Izady, identifies Subartus with the current Kurdish tribe of Zibaris inhabiting the northern ring around Mosul up to Hakkari From the point of view of the Akkadian Empire, Subartu marked the northern geographical horizon, just as Martu, Elam and Sumer

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz The plain lying between these mountains and the Tigris was called su-Edina, i.e., "the border of the plain." This name was sometimes shortened into Suti and Su, and has been regarded as = Shoa (Eze 23:23). Some think it denotes a place in Babylon. (See PEKOD.)""Sumerian inscriptions of 2000 BC, as well as early Assyrian inscriptions of a thousand years later, indicate the existence of a people named Kardaka, Kurtie or Guti in the neighbourhood of Lake Van

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz identifies the Gutians as ancestors of the modern Kurds: "The thirty million Kurds of the Middle East have lived in Kurdistan before record of modern history was kept. The very 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 Indo-European Median tribes settled in the Zagros mountain region and coalesced with the Gutiums, and thus the modern Kurds speak from as Aryan language

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz The Kurds are mentioned by Xenaphon, a Greek mercenary, as he retreated from Persia with ten thousand men in 401 BC, he says of the Kurds, "These people, lived in the mountains and were very war-like and not subject to the Persian king. Indeed once a royal army of 120,000 thousand had once invaded their country, and not a man of them came back..(Morris)." (Jensen 1996) Ancient Gutium was located within the modern Kurdistan,

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz you mongols of barbarian mountian little mongols(the Turkic language speakers is thought to have been included in the Xiongnu of Mongolia known from historical sources. The Han Dynasty chronicle of the Xiong-nu, included in the Shi Ji, traces a legendary history of them back a thousand years before the Han to a legendary ancestor, Chunwei, a supposed descendant of the Chinese rulers of the Xia Dynasty.He lived among the "Mountain Barbarians

[goran21715]

@AgartaliVaiz you are thieves stole anatolia history which haven't any relation to altaic language , you mongols (the Turkic peoples across most of Central Asia into Europe and the Middle East between the 6th and 11th centuries AD Tribes less certainly identified as Turkic began their expansion centuries earlier as the predominant element of the Huns. Their prehistoric point of origin was the hypothetical Proto-Turkic region of the Far East including North China and Inner Mongolia.