A brief about his life The poet Younis Mulla Raouf was born on February 20, 1918, in the city of Koye of Erbil governorate, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. He studied primary and middle school in the schools of Koya and Rania, then moved to Kirkuk to study secondary …

Karim Khan Citadel, also known as Arg-e Karim Khan,  was built in 1697 following the order and under command of Karim Khan Zand, the famous ruler of the Zand Dynasty. The citadel is a prominent legacy of the Zand Dynasty in Shiraz, especially from the architectural point of view. It …

Information about Kurdistan   Broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of northern Syria and Armenia. Two of these countries officially …

  9 Women every Kurd needs to know 1. Leila Bederkhan, the Princess of Kurdistan The daughter of the Kurdish Ottoman General Abdürrezzak Bedirxan and Austrian Henriette Hornik, it was Leila’s dream to become a dancer in a time where such an idea was taboo for a woman of her …

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this document is to nroduce in brief the history of the current National Flag of Kurdistan and to help those who use the Kurdish national flag to reproduce it correctly. The document contains the basic rules for the construction of the flag as well as the …

Stone Hotel: Former Iraqi King’s Favorite Resort in Kurdistan Renovated ERBIL — A historical hotel in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, where once was the favorite resort for a former Iraqi King, has been renovated to boost tourism in the area. The Stone Hotel of Sarsang was built in 1951 and, …

  Considered one of the oldest dams in the world, Jirwana dam is located five kilometres to the east of Shekhan district and ten kilometres from ‘Khanis’ remains in Duhok province, Kurdistan Region. The architectural design of the dam is something that attracts instant attention due to its creativeness and …

KURDISH TRIBES. Kurdish tribes are found throughout Persia, eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq, but very few comprehensive lists of them have been published. The one most often cited is that of François Bernard Charmoy, which was based on the Šaraf-nāma by the 16th-century Kurdish historian Šaraf-al-Din Bedlisi (q.v.; I, pp. …

Kurd, member of an ethnic and linguistic group living in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountainsof western Iran, portions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other adjacent areas. Most of the Kurds live in contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey—a somewhat loosely defined …

The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave A rare cache of hominid fossils from the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq offers a window on Neanderthal culture Owen Edwards March 2010 Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously …