Kurdistan Maps Gallery

Complete Collection of Kurdistan Maps and Historical Photos


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Kurdistan maps


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Peshmerga Fighting Forces


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13 files, last one added on May 27, 2005

Famous Kurds (Leaders/Activist/Writers...)


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Old Photos and Documents


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Old photos from Kurds and Kurdistan

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Misc


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Peshmerga training2189 viewsPeshmerga's training in South Kurdistan
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A Kurd from Caucasus266 viewsRUSSIA - Caucasian types : Kurd (from a 1910 painting).
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Kurdish Squadron of Levant 1939238 viewsFrom 1920 until 1946, France ruled Syria and Lebanon. It was the period of French Mandate. Some Kurdish soldiers formed a troop and had their own badge, as Druzes and other Syrian natives.Apr 05, 2007
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Kurdish Squadron of Levant badge 1939191 viewsFrom 1920 until 1946, France ruled Syria and Lebanon. It was the period of French Mandate. Some Kurdish soldiers formed a troop and had their own badge, as Druzes and other Syrian natives.Apr 05, 2007
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Mír Jeladet Alí Bedir Xan (1893 - 1951)410 viewsOne of the main leaders and founders of Xoybûn. in 1935 the Turkish chief of Safety asked to meet secretly Celadet Bedir Xan in Beirut and they talked about the revolt in Northern Kurdistan. Shukri Bey the Turk tried to convince Bedir Xan that Kurds and Turks were the same people and added that he met a Kurd in Mush who learnt very quickly and easily Turkish, then it proved that they have the same language
But Celadet answered : "it proves only that Kurds are cleverer than you !"

And he added : if you pretend that Kurds and Turks are brothers, then you should be happy to have a so clever young brother ! "
Mar 06, 2007
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Kurdish "Bedouin" and his child350 viewsThe picture was taken around 1900 by Sarafian Brothers, who were famous Armenian photographers. "Bedouin" means here "nomad", in the usual representation as Kurds, who were considered, since Ibn Khaldun, as the "Iranian" nomad, like Bedouins were the Arab nomads.Mar 02, 2007
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Jazîra and Upper Mesopotamia in 10th century681 viewsFrom al Kitab surat al-Ard, Ibn Hawqal.Feb 27, 2007
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Iraq map at 10th Century628 viewsFrom al-Kital Surat al-Ard, Ibn Hawqal.Feb 27, 2007
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Kurds in Jibal, between Shahrazûr and Suhraward859 viewsPerhaps the most ancient maps about Kurdish settlements, drawing by the great traveler and Geographer Ibn Hawqal, at the 2nd part of the 10th century : In the squared place at the left of the road from Hamadan to Ray (in green) Ibn Hawqal wrote : summer and wintered-settlement of Kurds.Feb 26, 2007
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Erbil 1944808 viewsFrom Iraq and the Persian Gulf, Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division, 1944.Feb 23, 2007