HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Kurdistan
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Palestine
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Constantinople
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kurds (Kurdish: , Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kurds establish the Republic of Mahabad, a short-lived, independently governed state in Kurd-inhabited territories of Iran that came under Soviet control during World War II. Iran reoccupies Mahabad after the Soviet withdrawal in December 1946.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. ‘Kurdishness’) is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kurdistan as an administrative entity had a brief and shaky existence of 17 years between 13 December 1847 (following Bedirhan Bey’s revolt) and 1864, under the initiative of Koca Mustafa Reşit Pasha during the Tanzimat period (1839–1876) of the Ottoman Empire.