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    The Kurds in Georgia (Kurdish: Kurdên Gurcistanê, Кӧрдэн Гӧрщьстанэ) (Sorani Kurdish: کوردانی جۆرجیا) form a major part of the historically significant...
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    80% of the Kurdish population in Georgia are assimilated Kurds. There were also many Kurds among the Kurdish diaspora and in Red Kurdistan. According to...
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    Kurds or Kurdish people (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which...
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    Yazidis (redirect from Yezidi Kurds)
    Yazidis are regarded as ethnic Kurds in Georgia and Germany. The Soviet Union registered the Yazidis and the Kurds as two different ethnic groups for...
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    Yazidism in Georgia refers to adherents of Yazidism among Kurds in Georgia. Yazidis of Georgia fled from the Ottoman Empire due to persecution in the 19th...
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    Caucasian Kurds are ethnic Kurds which come from or live in the region of the Caucasus. The first Kurdish presence in the Caucasus region can be traced...
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    existence of Kurds. The words "Kurds" or "Kurdistan" were banned in any language by the Turkish government, though "Kurdish" was allowed in census reports...
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    because many Kurds list themselves as Turks and Azeris. Other sources predict this number to be higher, counting up to 60,000-800,000 Kurds in Kazakhstan...
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    The Kurds in Azerbaijan form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space. Kurds established a presence in the Caucasus...
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    The Kurds were deported from Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, and Armenian SSR by the Soviet secret police NKVD in 1937 and 1944 and sent to special settlements...
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    Kurds moved to Russia and Armenia. According to the Russian Census of 1897, 99,900 Kurds lived in the Russian Empire. In 1937 and 1944 Soviet Kurds experienced...
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    referred to as Kurds as offensive. However, some Yazidis in Armenia acknowledge their ties with Kurds and a minority identify themselves as Kurds (particularly...
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    and the Kurds (Proto-Kurds), in the wording of G. Windfuhr (1975: 459), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan. In the second...
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    of Sèvres, Iraqi Kurds have experienced a recent troubled political history. After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurds, now governed by the...
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    Kurds in Japan (Japanese: 在日クルド人, Zainichi Kurudo-jin, Kurdish: Kurdên Japonyayê) refers to Kurds residing in Japan. Kurds do not have a majority nation...
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    people Tsk Av Udi Azerbaijanis Arm Armenians Arm Az Kurds ↓ Assyrians Georgians Georgians Georgians Svaneti Abkhazians Laz (Kars) Turks This gives ethnic...
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    000 Kurds in San Diego County alone, and most Californian Kurds live in Southern California, with some, but significantly less of a presence in Northern...
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    Kurdistan Uezd (category Forced migration in the Soviet Union)
    neighbouring countries, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kurds in Azerbaijan Kurdish Republic of Lachin Yekbûn Kurds in Russia List of Kurdish dynasties and countries...
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    Christians are Kurds who follow Christianity. Though the majority of Kurds were converted to Islam during the expansion of the Islamic caliphates in the 7th...
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  • of Turkey has an official policy in place that denies the existence of the Kurds as a distinct ethnicity. The Kurds, who are a people that speaking various...
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    Kurds in Germany are residents or citizens of Germany of full or partial Kurdish origin. There is a large Kurdish community in Germany. The number of Kurds...
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  • List of Iranian Kurds A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall Leinonen, Anu (2017). Unity or Diversity? Turkish Nationalism, Kurds, and the Turkish...
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    "Kurdish" has been applied extrinsically in describing the language the Kurds speak, whereas some ethnic Kurds have used the word term to simply describe...
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    Kurds in Israel refers to people of Kurdish origin residing in Israel (excluding Kurdish Jews). The Kurdish population in Israel is small and is mainly...
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    Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey, the majority...
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    Kurds in Denmark are Kurds living in Denmark. The number of Kurds is estimated between 25,000 and 30,000 and they come mainly from countries in the Middle...
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    peoples Kurds in Turkey Romani Dom Romani people in Turkey Zazas Kartvelian peoples Georgians in Turkey Laz people in Turkey Semites Arabs in Turkey Assyrians...
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  • the North Caucasus in 1999 after transiting through the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia. Russian intelligence claims that Kurd fought in the battalion of foreign...
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    Armenia in 1988. Furthermore, the fall of the Soviet Union facilitated the migration of Kurds from the former Soviet Union to Ukraine. Most of these Kurds were...
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    Zazas (redirect from Zaza Kurds)
    Diyarbakır provinces. Zazas generally consider themselves Kurds, and are often described as Zaza Kurds by scholars. According to Encyclopædia Iranica the endonym...
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