ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
Dahhak (Dahhak-i Mari; in some sources Biyurasif, Biyorasef or Biyorasb) is a figure in Islamic period geography, history, and travel sources related to the origins of the Kurds...
Dersim is a province of Kurdish ethnicity, defined in Ottoman sources as a region of Kurdistan, with a population of mostly Kurds; its northern and eastern side…
Daylam (Daylamites) is a people mentioned in ancient and Islamic sources in the mountainous region east of Kurdish geography, extending to the Caspian Sea, and a region bearing the same name...
The Tigris is a large river flowing from Upper Mesopotamia and traversing the geography inhabited by Kurds. It is mentioned in both ancient Greek-Roman sources and Islamic period...
Dinever is a historical city in the medieval al-Jibal (Jabal) region, located in present-day northwestern Iran, with a dense Kurdish population. In early Islamic...
Diodorus (Diodorus Siculus, approximately 90-30 BC) is one of the ancient historians. He is known as Diodorus Siculus because he was born in Sicily, and his work Bibliotheca...
Diyarbekir (Amid) is one of the central cities of Upper Mesopotamia, serving throughout history as both a dynastic center and, during the Ottoman period, one of the most important cities in Kurdish geography...
Diyarbekirli Said Pasha was a Diyarbakir poet and statesman who lived in the 19th century. He is best known for his work "Not Defteri" which includes his narrat…
Duhok (Dehuk) is a Kurdish settlement located today in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, which was a district center attached to the Mosul province during the Ottoman period. Ottoman press sources...
Damascus (Sham) was the political and scientific center of Bilad al-Sham during the Ayyubid period, where many historians, jurists, and scholars who served as sources for Kurdish history lived, taught, and...