The Kurds and Kurdistan

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Éditeur : Greenwood Press	Date & Lieu : 1997, London
Préface :	Pages : 358
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-313-30397-5
Langue : Anglais	Format : 145x215mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Meh. Kur. N° 3919	Thème : Général

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The Kurds and Kurdistan: a Selective and Annotated Bibliography Lokman I. Meho Greenwood Press Kurdistan, or the land of the Kurds, is a strategic area located in the geographic heart of the Middle East. Today it comprises important parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Azerbaijan. Since it was, and still is, denied independence, most scholars describe Kurdistan as the area in which Kurds constitute an ethnic majority. Kurdistan was first divided in 1514 between the Ottoman and Persian empires. Four centuries later, Britain and France further altered the political contours of Kurdistan by dividing the Ottoman Kurdistan into three main parts. Iranian Kurdistan stayed where it was. The area thus partitioned consisted of about 190,000 square miles divided as follows: Turkey (43 percent), Iran (31 percent), Iraq (18 percent), Syria (6 percent), and the former Soviet Union (2 percent).2 As in the case with most Middle Eastern stateless nations and ethnic groups, estimates of the total number of Kurds vary widely. The subsequent governments of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the former Soviet Union did not (and still do not) carry out any real official census for the Kurdish populations in their respective countries. Turkey and Azerbaijan have even denied, until ...

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Lokman I. Meho

The Kurds and Kurdistan
A Selective and Annotated Bibliography

Greenwood Press

Greenwood Publishing Group
The Kurds and Kurdistan
A Selective and Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by Lokman I. Meho

Bibliographies and Indexes in World History,
Number 46
Greenwood Press
Westport, Connecticut - London

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Meho, Lokman I., 1968-
The Kurds and Kurdistan: a selective and annotated bibliography /
compiled by Lokman I. Meho.
p. cm.—(Bibliographies and indexes in world history,
ISSN 0742-6852 ; no. 46)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-313-30397-5 (alk. paper)
I. Kurds—Bibliography. 2. Kurdistan—Bibliography. I. Title.
II. Series.
Z3014.K85M44 1997
[DS59.K86]
016.9566'7—dc21 97-9008

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