Kurdistan | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:27 1 History
00:01:35 1.1 Etymology
00:02:03 1.2 Ancient history
00:04:48 1.3 Post-classical history
00:06:30 1.4 Modern history
00:09:18 1.4.1 Northern Kurdistan
00:11:33 1.4.2 Syrian Civil War
00:12:46 2 People
00:13:22 3 Geography
00:15:07 3.1 Subdivisions (Upper and Lower Kurdistan)
00:16:37 3.2 Climate
00:17:20 3.3 Flora and fauna
00:18:42 3.4 Mountains
00:19:15 3.5 Rivers
00:20:28 3.6 Lakes
00:20:59 3.7 Petroleum and mineral resources
00:23:04 4 See also



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Kurdistan (; Kurdish: کوردستان‎ [ˌkʊɾdɯˈstɑːn] (listen); lit. "region of Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural historical region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population and Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. The territory corresponds to Kurdish irredentist claims.
Contemporary use of the term refers to the following areas: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Rojava or Western Kurdistan). Some Kurdish nationalist organizations seek to create an independent nation state consisting of some or all of these areas with a Kurdish majority, while others campaign for greater autonomy within the existing national boundaries.Iraqi Kurdistan first gained autonomous status in a 1970 agreement with the Iraqi government, and its status was re-confirmed as an autonomous entity within the federal Iraqi republic in 2005. There is a province by the name Kurdistan in Iran; it is not self-ruled. Kurds fighting in the Syrian Civil War were able to take control of large sections of northern Syria as government forces, loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, withdrew to fight elsewhere. Having established their own government, they called for autonomy in a federal Syria after the war.