Kurdistan, or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region and stateless nation in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, a
Ancient Kurdistan as Kard-uchi, during Alexander the Great's Empire, 4th century BCE
British Government 1921 proposal from the Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, for an autonomous region of Kurdistan.
A typical Kurdish village in Hawraman, Kurdistan
Canyon in Rawanduz, northern Iraqi Kurdistan
The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, also known as Rojava, was a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria from 2012 until its integration into the Syrian state in
Kurdistan
…province in Iran, which is not self-ruled. Kurds fighting in the Syrian civil war, under the banner of the Syrian Democratic forces, established the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (commonly called Rojava), a self-governing administration which seeks to retain its autonomy in a proposed federalized Syria. Kurdistan means "Land of…
Having been part of the Fertile Crescent, Northern Syria has several Neolithic sites such as Tell Halaf.
Ruins of the "Red House" of the Assyrian site Dur-Katlimmu exposed by excavations (6th century AD)
The Ba'athist government of Syria under Hafez al-Assad (pictured c. 1987) implemented Arabization policies in northern Syria.
Kurds celebrating Newroz in Girê Tertebê, near Qamishli, in 1997