The Origins and Appearance of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Limbert (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 41-51 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210866808701350 |
| OpenAlex | W2080948105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
At present the Kurds occupy parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the USSR. As the map shows, the area in which the Kurds predominate is a long are extending roughly northwest to southeast in a band of varying width from central Turkey to western Iran in the Kermanshah and Shāhābād regions. In these last areas, the historic road from Baghdad to Hamadān and beyond divides the Kurds from their Iranian cousins, the Lurs. Within this extensive, mountainous area the Kurds speak an Iranian language divided into two groups of dialects--northern Kurdish, or Kurmandji, and southern Kurdish, called Kurdi. The dividing line between these two groups of dialects run roughly from the southwest corner of Lake Rezaiyeh to the town of Rowanduz in northern Iraq. Linguists consider Kurdish to be a northwestern Iranian language and therefore quite distinct from Persian, a southwestern language
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Islam · Linguistics · Middle East · Persian · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Turkish Literature and Culture
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |