Kurdistan, or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
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 in northern Iraqi Kurdistan
Kurdish is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria.
Road signs near Diyarbakır showing the place names in Turkish and Kurdish