Kurdiana
Primary Sources for Kurdish History
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Is Zaza a branch of Kurdish?
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The history of the Kurds
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Kurdish tribes in Ottoman archival documents
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Abbâsîler
The Abbasids (749-1258) are an Islamic caliphate dynasty centered in Baghdad. Since a large part of the Islamic period of Kurdish history took place during the time of this dynasty, sources Kurdish...
- Place
Adiabene
Adiabene is a historical region and kingdom located in northern Mesopotamia, east of the Tigris, defined in ancient sources with Erbil as its center. Kurdish...
- Place
Adilcevaz
Adilcevaz is a district located around Lake Van and recorded as a settlement unit within the administrative structure of the region during the Ottoman period. The dense population of Kurds...
- Person
Agathangelos
Agathangelos is the author of the first Armenian History, attributed to an anonymous writer known by the epithet "good messenger" and written in Armenian. The work, early Sasanian...
- Place
Ahlat
Ahlat (Hilât in sources) is a historical city located on the northwestern shore of Lake Van. In early Islamic period geography and history sources, yet "Kurdistan"...
- Dynasty
Akkoyunlu
Akkoyunlu is a Turkmen dynasty that was influential in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and the surrounding geography during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Its name, the Turkmen t...
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Kurdiana is an academic archive where the primary sources of Kurdish history meet trusted research.
The aim of this work is to identify the primary sources on Kurdish history produced from antiquity to 1980, in order to make possible the writing of a holistic history of the Kurds. Built on the BAN Foundation's 12-volume Sources of Kurdish History series, Kurdiana presents these sources as compiled by expert historians and opens them to researchers in any language — every fact cited by volume and page.
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The Written Sources of Kurdish History
An analytical, annotated bibliographic catalog of primary sources on the Kurds and Kurdistan, from the 6th century BC to 1980.
Kronikler
Abbas Mirza Mülk-âra Biyografisi / Hatıraları, Tahran 1892
Abbas Mirza Mülkâra
Nasıreddin Şah’ın kardeşi, Kacar Şehzadelerinden Naibü’l Saltane Abbas Mirza Mülk-âra, anne tarafından Mukri Kürtlerindendir. Biyografisinde de belirttiği gibi annesi Seyid Taha Nehri’nin müridelerindendir. Uzun yıllar Osmanlı ve Rusya’da ü…
Kitaplar
Güneydoğu Birinci Genel Müfettişlik Bölgesi, Cumhuriyet Matbaası, İstanbul 1939. 466 s.
Ziya Gökalp
Birinci Genel Müfettişlik tarafından 1939’da İstanbul’da basılan kitap 1927’de teşkil edilen Birinci Umumi Umumi Müfettişlik teşkilatı ve müfettişlik bölgesi içerisinde yer alan Diyarbekir, Muş, Bitlis, Van, Hakkâri, Urfa, Mardin ve Siirt v…
Günlükler
Küçük Mecmua
Ziya Gökalp
, Türkçülüğün zirve isimlerinden Diyarbakırlı Ziya Gökalp tarafından 5 Haziran 1922 ile 5 Mart 1923 tarihleri arasında Diyarbakır’da yayımlanmış, haftalık ilmî, edebî, siyasî, iktisadî bir mecmuadır. Ankara hükümetinin maddî yardımlarıyla y…
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The 12-Volume Sources of Kurdish History Series
Published by the BAN Foundation, the series compiles written primary sources in many languages, from antiquity to 1980. Ask the indexed volumes a question in any language and receive an answer cited by volume and page.