All of the non-Persian, tribal, pastoral, Iranian groups in the foothills and the mountains of the Zagros range along the eastern fringes of Iraq were called Kurd at that time | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
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Ilya Gershevitch, William Bayne Fisher, The Cambridge History of Iran: The Median and Achamenian Periods, 964 pp | " However according to McDowall, the term Cyrtii was first applied to or mercenary slingers from , and it is not clear if it denoted a coherent linguistic or ethnic group |
Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, , 1996 , 89.
As with the Persians, their presence along the northeastern edge of Iraq was merely an extension of their presence in Western Iran | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p |
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1-58, 2009: "The ancient history of the Kurds, as in case of many other Iranian ethnic groups Baluchis, etc | Thomas Bois, The Kurds, 159 pp |
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10Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics | Mayrhofer, Die Arier im Vorderen Orient — ein Mythos? , can be reconstructed but in a very tentative and abstract form"• Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc |
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Wladimir Ivanon, "The Gabrdi dialect spoken by the Zoroastrians of Persia", Published by G | If there was a Kurdish-speaking subjected peasantry at that time, the term was not yet used to include them |
Sitzungsberichte der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 294,3, Vienna 1974; M.
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