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|+ <big>'''Kurdistan '''</big>
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | [[Image:Kurdish-inhabited area by CIA (1992).jpg|225px]]<br>Deng lugal nung nu la manuknangan deng Kurd
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! style="text-align: left;" | [[Amanu]]
| [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]
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! style="text-align: left;" | [[Location (geography)|Lugal]]
| [[Albugan]] ampong [[Pangulu]] [[albugan]]g [[Iranian Plateau]]: [[Upper Mesopotamia]], [[Zagros]], [[Mauli]] [[albugan]]g [[Anatolia]], kayabe la reng dake ning [[Pangulu]] [[albugan]]g [[Iran]], [[pangulu]]ng Iraq, [[pangulu]] [[aslagan]]g [[Syria]] ampong  [[mauli]] [[aslagan]]g [[Turkey]]<ref name="borders">{{Cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Kurdistan|title=Kurdistan - Definitions from Dictionary.com|accessdate=2007-10-21}}</ref>
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! style="text-align: left;" | [[Lapad]] ([[Tantsa]])
|190,000&nbsp;km²–390,000&nbsp;km²<br>74,000 sq.mi–151,000 sq.mi
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! style="text-align: left;" | [[Populasyun]]
| 25 anggang 30 milyun (Populasyun a Kurdish) ([[Approximation|Est.]])<ref name=FSU>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-03-17 |url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/announce/KSF.html |title=Kurdish Studies Program |publisher=Florida State University}}</ref>
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Ing '''Kurdistan''' ({{audio|Ku-Kurdistan.oga|(makiramdam)}} "Labwad da reng Kurd";<ref name="BritannicaKurdistan">{{cite web|accessdate=2010-07-29 |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/325241/Kurdistan |title=Kurdistan|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica Online}}</ref> a ausan da mu namang  ''Curdistan'' kanita;<ref>The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster—Page 511, Original from Oxford University—published 1830</ref><ref>An Account of the State of Roman-Catholick Religion, Sir Richard Steele, Published 1715</ref> laun a lagyu: ''[[Corduene]]''<ref>N. Maxoudian, ''Early Armenia as an Empire: The Career of Tigranes III, 95–55 BC'', Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Vol. 39, Issue 2, April 1952 , pp. 156–163.</ref><ref name="A.D. Lee, 1991 pp. 366-374">A.D. Lee, ''The Role of Hostages in Roman Diplomacy with Sasanian Persia'', Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 40, No. 3 (1991), pp. 366–374 (see p.371)</ref><ref>M. Sicker, ''The pre-Islamic Middle East'', 231 pp., Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, (see p.181)</ref><ref>J. den Boeft, ''Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXIII'', 299 pp., Bouma Publishers, 1998. (see p.44)</ref><ref>J. F. Matthews, ''Political life and culture in late Roman society'', 304 pp., 1985</ref><ref>George Henry Townsend, ''A manual of dates: a dictionary of reference to the most important events in the history of mankind to be found in authentic records'', 1116 pp., Warne, 1867. (see p.556)</ref><ref>F. Stark, ''Rome on the Euphrates: the story of a frontier'', 481 pp., 1966. (see p.342)</ref>) metung yang e makaing malino pamigulis a labwad nung nu deng [[Kurds]] ing manimunang mayorya ning populasyun,{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}} at nung nu la makabasi deng [[Kurdish a kultura]], [[Kurdish a amanu|amanu]], ampong [[Kurdish a nasyonalismu|pamikilalang pambangsa]] king kasalesayan.<ref>M. T. O'Shea, ''Trapped between the map and reality: geography and perceptions of Kurdistan '', 258 pp., Routledge, 2004. (see p.77)</ref>

<!--The name Kurdistan was used in 1150 by the [[Seljuk]] [[Sultan Sanjar]] for designating a portion of Western [[Iran]].<ref>[http://www.kurdishglobe.net/displayArticle.jsp?id=8F45BFF7E739694E09A76D76AB92C3F8 Kurdish Globe], accessed: 1 March 2010.</ref><ref>http://www.institutkurde.org/en/institute/who_are_the_kurds.php</ref> with connotations of the older toponyms ''Curdia''<ref>Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure, Sir Anthony Sherley, [[Edward Denison Ross]], Published 2004 Routledge (first published 1933), 293 pages, ISBN 0415344867, page: 269</ref> and the ancient [[Corduene]]<ref name="A.D. Lee, 1991 pp. 366-374">A.D. Lee, ''The Role of Hostages in Roman Diplomacy with Sasanian Persia'', Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 40, No. 3 (1991), pp. 366–374 (see p.371)</ref>-->
King kasalungsungan a pamangamit, ing Kurdistan mangabaldugan yang deng mapilan a dake ning [[albugan]]g [[Turkey]] ([[Turkish Kurdistan]]), [[pangulu]]ng [[Iraq]] ([[Iraqi Kurdistan]]), [[pangulu]] [[albugan]]g Iran ([[Iranian Kurdistan]]) ampong [pangulu]]ng [[Syria]] ([[Western Kurdistan]]) nung nu deng Kurd ing manimunang manuknangan.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/65/ku/Kurds.html The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2005.]</ref>
Halus katulid ne ning Kurdistan ing labwad a bibilugan da reng[[pangulu]] [[albugan]] ning kabundukan a [[Zagros]] ampong [[aslagan]] ning kabundukan a [[Taurus Mountains|Taurus]] mountain ranges,<ref>[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9046469/Kurdistan Kurdistan], [[Britannica]] Concise.</ref> at miraras ya kareng dake ning [[Armenia]].

Minuna yang mika kabilyan a ''autonomous'' (maki sariling pamanibala) king pamikasundu anyang  1970 king kapamahalan a Iraqi, at mekumpirma yang pasibayu ing kayang kabilyan antimong labwad a [[autonomous]] kilub ning pederal a republikang Iraqi anyang 2005.<ref>Iraqi Constitution, Article 113.</ref> Ating lalawigan a maki lagyung ''[[Kurdistan Province|Kurdistan]]'' king Iran; ala yang sariling pamanibala. 

Asakup de reng Kurd a lalaban king [[Gerang sibil king Syria]] ing maragul a dake ning [[pangulu]] [[aslagan]] ning Syria kabang minurung la reng pwersang kakampi nang al-Assad ba lang lumaban kareng aliwang lugal. Uling atátag de ing sarili rang kapamahalan, minyad lang autonomia king demokratikung Syria deng aliwang Kurd; den namang aliwa, kapagnasan dang mitátag magsarili o independienting Kurdistan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kurds seek autonomy in democratic Syria|publisher=BBC|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19291072|date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>

Bisa lang mitikdong mágsariling [[bangsang estadu]]ng (''nation state'') Kurdistan deng aliwang agumang [[Nasyonalismung Kurdish |nasyonalistang Kurdish]], a bibilugan da reng aliwa o ing sablang lugal a keraklan Kurdish, kabang deng aliwa naman, mangampanya la para king karagdagang autonomiyang Kurdish kilub da reng kasalukuyang angganan da reng bangsa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc060910SK.html |title=The Kurdish Conflict: Aspirations for Statehood within the Spirals of International Relations in the 21st Century |publisher=Kurdishaspect.com |date= |accessdate=2011-05-13 |archivedate=5 June 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605143814/http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc060910SK.html }}</ref><ref>Hamit Bozarslan “The Kurdish Question: Can it be solved withing Europe?”, [http://books.google.com/books?id=AJpvnC54S8EC&pg=PA84&dq=%22kurdish+nationalists+to%22&hl=en&ei=qN0pToiWK43CswbHz9ycDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22kurdish%20nationalists%20to%22&f=false page 84 “The years of silence and of renewal”] in Olivier Roy, ed. “Turkey Today: A European Country?”.</ref>

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== Lon la mu rin ==
* [[Kurdistan Okrug]]
* [[Kurdistan Regional Government]]
* [[Turkish Kurdistan]]
* [[Iranian Kurdistan]]
* [[Iraqi Kurdistan]]
* [[Syrian Kurdistan]]
* [[List of Kurdish dynasties and countries]]
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* [http://www.krg.org/ Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Northern Iraq].
* [http://www.institutkurde.org/en/ The Kurdish Institute of Paris] Provides news, bulletins, articles and conference information on the situation in Kurdistan.
* [http://www.theotheriraq.com Official Investment Website of Kurdistan]
* [http://www.polosbastards.com/artman/publish/article_32.shtml Troubled Times—A Brief History Of Kurdistan]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kurdistan-maps.htm A dozen maps of Kurdistan] by [http://www.GlobalSecurity.org/ GlobalSecurity.org]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2207534,00.html Calls for freedom make the jigsaw of Europe more complicated than ever (Kurdistan in 2010s)][http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2207383,00.html][http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2207484,00.html]
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