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Kurds

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria.

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Armenia
37,470
Australia
10,171
Austria
23,000
Azerbaijan
150,000–180,000
Belgium
50,000
Canada
16,315

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Kurds

Nodes640
Edges639
Triples1044
Avg. degree2
Density0.003125
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Kurds

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related to General and cited references · 228
Kurds → Abbas, Age, Alexander, Algar, Alison, Amanat, Amoretti, Ancient Times, Andrew, Arab Invasion, Arabs, Armenia, Armenian Merchants, Armenian People, Aslanian, Atmaca, Ayyūbids, Aḥmad, BAHDĪNĀN, Barth
related to Turkic invasion · 68
Kurds → Abu, Abu Kalijar, Ahmad, Anatolia, Annazids, Another, Armenia, Around, As, Azarbayjan, Banu Uqayl, Bashnawi Kurds, Basil II, Before, Between, Buqa, Buyid, Buyids, Dahhak, Dawla
related to Turkey · 43
Kurds → Abdullah Alpdoğan, According, At, By, Cemal Gürsel, CIA World Factbook, Diyarbakir, Doğu, Doğulu, Eastern Turk, Easterner, Ethnologue, February, Fırat, In, KSP-T, Kurdish, Kurdish-inhabited, Kurdish-majority, Kurdish-speakers
related to Antiquity · 41
Kurds → Assyrian, BC, Bohtan River, Both Kurdish, Certain, Corduene, Cyaxares, Cyrtians, Driver, In, Iranian, Kar-da, Kar-da-ka, Karduchoi, Kurd, Kurdish, Lake Van, Mackenzie, Many Kurds, Martin Hartmann
related to Further reading · 41
Kurds → ABC-Clio, Aftermath, Amin, An Encyclopedia, Awe, Chad, Culture, Dawn, Dundas, Eppel, Gale, Gale Encyclopedia, In Riggs, Iraq, Islam, Kurdish Americans, Life, Maisel, Michael, Mohammed
related to Islamic conquest · 40
Kurds → Adharbayjan, After, Akrad, Although, Arab, Arab Muslim, Arabic, Arminiya, At, Before, Bilad, By, Fars, High Middle Ages, However, In, Iran, Iranian, Islam, Islamic
related to Diaspora · 37
Kurds → According, Austria, Benelux, Canada, Canadians, Census, Council, Dewsbury, Europe, France, Germany, In, Iran, Iraq, Kurdish, Little Kurdistan, London, Markazi, Muslim, Nashville
related to Historiography · 37
Kurds → AD, Advent, Alexander, Brief History, Brill, Conn, Documentary Sourcebook, Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, Foreign Policy, From, Hitchins, ISBN, Islam, Keith, Kurdish, Kurdish Studies, Kurdistan, Lokman, March, Maxwell
related to Genetics · 36
Kurds → According, Among, Anatolia, Another, Caucasian, Caucasians, Caucasus, Central Asian, Central Asians, European, Europeans, Georgia, Georgian Kurds, Haplogroup I-M170, HV1, In, It, J-M172, Kurdish, Kurmanji
related to Safavid period · 36
Kurds → Abbas, Afghan, Amir Khan Lepzerin, Aq Qoyunlu, Ardabil, Armenians, Battle, Chaldiran, Circassians, Dimdim, Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, For, Georgians, Iran, Iran's West Azerbaijan Province, Iranian, Iranian Safavids, Khorasan, Kurdish, Kurdish-inhabited

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kurdish kurdistan iran iranian turkey iraq turkish also syria islam many isbn century people persian million ethnic among ibn region

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
KurdsArmenia37,4701.00infobox
KurdsAustralia10,1711.00infobox
KurdsAustria23,0001.00infobox
KurdsAzerbaijan150,000–180,0001.00infobox
KurdsBelgium50,0001.00infobox
KurdsCanada16,3151.00infobox
KurdsDenmark30,0001.00infobox
KurdsFinland15,8501.00infobox
KurdsFrance150,0001.00infobox
KurdsGeorgia13,8611.00infobox
KurdsGermany1.2–1.5 million1.00infobox
KurdsGreece22,0001.00infobox
KurdsIndonesia4,8001.00infobox
KurdsIranest. 8.2–12 million1.00infobox
KurdsIraqest. 5.6–8.5 million1.00infobox
KurdsJordan30,0001.00infobox
KurdsKazakhstan47,9381.00infobox
KurdsKyrgyzstan13,2001.00infobox
KurdsNetherlands100,0001.00infobox
KurdsRussia63,8181.00infobox
KurdsSweden100,000+1.00infobox
KurdsSwitzerland35,0001.00infobox
KurdsSyriaest. 1.5–3.6 million1.00infobox
KurdsTurkeyest. 14.3–20 million1.00infobox
KurdsUnited Kingdom49,8411.00infobox
KurdsUnited States20,591–40,000[new archival link needed]1.00infobox

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