A team of French archaeologists has located the remains of a lost ancient city in …
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A team of French archaeologists has located the remains of a lost ancient city in …
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Abu-Hanifa Ahmad Dinawari By Prof. M. R. Izady The year 1996 marks the 1,100th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest Kurdish and Islamic minds of all times, Abu-Hanifa Ahmad Dinawari. Among the founders of the Islamic sciences as we know them today, he was born in Dinawar circa AD …
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Understanding the Truth, Issue 1, January 1, 1918 Têgeyştinî Rastî (Understanding the truth) was a semiweekly newspaper published by the command of the British army in Iraq in 1918–19. At the time, Britain was at war with the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled Iraq since the 16th century. When British forces …
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Mahabad – the first independent Kurdish republic By Mufid Abdulla: One of an occasional series of articles on aspects of Kurdish history The first independent Kurdish republic was in Iran. The ‘State of Republic of Kurdistan’ was founded in Mahabad in January 1946 and, although it survived for less …
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History of Kurdistan