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Kurdistan (region)

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A region centered on the mountains of what is today northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey.

Names

  • Armenian: Քրդաստան = Kʻrdastan 1
  • Armenian: Քրդստան = Kʻrdstan 2-3
  • Armenian: Քրտաստան = Kʻrtastan 4

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yohannēs. 1 1428142814281955
Event mentioned by T‘umay Minasents‘. 2 1445144514451955
Event mentioned by Yovsēp‘. 3 1473147314731958
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i. 4 1472147214721958

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 402 I: p. 380 [Armenian].
    • K‘rdastan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1428 (no. 3) [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 653 I: pp. 579-581 [Armenian].
    • K‘rdstan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1445 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 433 II: p. 342 [Armenian].
    • K‘rdstan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1473 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • K‘rtastan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Evan Willford, and McKenzie Cady, “Kurdistan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/13.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; and categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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