Kurdistan Eyalet was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. It was the first time that the Ottoman Empire used the term "Kurdistan" to refer to an administrative unit rather than a geographical region. It w
Lucas, Fielding Jr. Turkey in Asia. 1823 GA
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
Kurdistan Eyalet
…Turkish: ایالت کردستان, romanized: Eyâlet-ı Kurdistan) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. It was the first time that the Ottoman Empire used the term "Kurdistan" to refer to an administrative unit rather than a geographical region. It was formed with the aim of establishing direct control over Ottoman Kurdistan…
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