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 | Kurdish-inhabited area |
_(margins_cropped).png) | Kurdistan (H. Binder, 1887) |
 | Kurdistan (RGS, 1892) |
.jpg) | Kurdish- and mixed Kurdish-inhabited areas (1910) |
.jpg) | Kurdish-inhabited area (CIA, 1948) |
 | Kurdish-inhabited area (CIA, 1986) |
.jpg) | Kurdish-inhabited area (CIA, 1992) |
.jpg) | Kurdish-inhabited area (CIA, 2002) |
 | Kurdish-inhabited area and Kurdish diaspora in the Middle East |
 | Kurdish-inhabited area |
 | Kurdish-inhabited area |
 | Kurdish language area |
 | Kurdish language area |
 | Kurdish language area |
 | Kurdish language area |
 | Status of Iranian languages |
 | Southern Kurdish dialect |
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Kurdistan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Kurdistan.
.jpg) | Map of the state of Mitanni in 1450 BC |
 | Map of the state of Mitanni in 1450 BC |
 | Map of the state of Mitanni in circa 1400 BCE |
 | Map of the kingdom of Mitanni at its maximal extension |
 | Map of the state of Mitanni |
 | Map of the state of Mitanni |
 | Map of the state of Mitanni |
 | Median Empire, around 600 BC |
 | Median Empire, around 600 BC |
 | Median Empire, since 600 BC |
 | Median Empire, 6th century BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire in the time of the Cyrus the Great |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire in the time of the Cyrus the Great |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 540 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
.png) | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 490 BC |
.jpg) | Achaemenid Persian Empire in the time of the Darius the Great |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 480 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 480 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire |
 | Macedonian Empire, 334-323 BC |
 | Macedonian Empire, 323 BC |
 | Macedonian Empire, 323 BC |
 | Macedonian Empire |
 | Seleucid Empire, 323 BC |
 | Seleucid Empire, 303 BC |
 | Seleucid Empire, 301 BC |
 | Seleucid Empire, 200 BC |
 | Seleucid Empire, 194 BC |
 | Seleucid Empire |
 | Seleucid Empire |
 | Seleucid Empire |
 | Parthian Empire, 100 BC |
 | Parthian Empire, 1st century BC |
 | Kingdom of Gordyene, 95-66 BC |
 | Parthian Empire, 60 BC |
 | Parthian Empire, 60 BC |
 | Parthian Empire, 50 BC |
 | Roman dependency of Corduene (as of 31 BC) |
 | Parthian Empire, 1 AD |
 | Parthian Empire, 1 AD |
 | Parthian Empire |
 | Parthian Empire |
 | Parthian Empire |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire and Eastern Roman Empire, around 400 AD |
 | Roman-Persian Frontier, 5th century |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire and Eastern Roman Empire, around 500 AD |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire, around 500 AD |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire, 565 AD |
 | Roman-Persian Frontier, 565 |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire and Eastern Roman Empire, 6th century |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire, 6th century |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire, 600 AD |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire and Eastern Roman Empire, 600 AD |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire, 620 AD |
.GIF) | Sassanid Persian Empire, 226-651 |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire |
 | Sassanid Persian Empire |
 | Persian Empires, 610 BC-651 AD |
 | Roman-Persian Frontier in Late Antiquity, 4th-7th centuries |
 | Hasanwayhid dynasty (10th-11th century) |
 | Marwanids rule areas (990-1085) |
.png) | Ghurid Iranian Empire, 1149-1212 |
-Masry.PNG) | Ayyubid Empire, 1171-1246 |
.PNG) | Ayyubid Empire, 1171-1246 |
.png) | Ayyubid Empire, 1171-1246 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1188 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1188 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1189 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1190 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 12th century |
 | Anatolia and surrounding regions in AD 1200 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1250-1260 |
 | Ayyubid Empire, 1257 |
 | Ayyubid Empire |
.GIF) | Timurid Persian Empire, 1365-1405 |
.png) | Timurid Persian Empire |
 | Timurid Persian Empire |
 | Timurid Persian Empire |
 | Safavid Persian Empire in 1501-1722 |
 | Safavid Persian Empire in 1501-1722 |
 | Safavid Persian Empire in 1512 |
 | Safavid Persian Empire, 16th-18th century |
.jpg) | Afsharid Iranian Empire, 1723-1735 |
.svg) | Afsharid Iranian Empire, 1736-1802 |
 | Persia in 1741 |
 | Qajar Persian Empire during earlier years of Qajar dynasty |
 | Qajar Persian Empire |
 | The Soran Emirate at its Peak (1835) |
 | Khurasani Kurdish exclave circa 1835 |
 | Ardalan state |
 | Ardalan state |
 | Kurdish states from 2nd century BC to 19th century |
 | Persia and Ottoman Empire in 1900 |
 | Persia in 1907 |
 | Proposed Kurdish state by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) |
 | Proposed Kurdish state by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) |
 | Proposed Kurdish state by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) |
 | Proposed Kurdish state by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) |
 | Kurdish statehood in the 20th century |
 | Kingdom of Kurdistan in 1923 |
.png) | Kingdom of Kurdistan in 1923 |
 | Red Kurdistan (Kurdistan Uyezd, Kurdistan Autonomous Province) in Soviet Caucasus, 1923-1929. |
 | Kurdistani District (Red Kurdistan) in Soviet Caucasus, 1930. |
 | Republic of Mahabad (1946) |
 | Republic of Mahabad (1946) |
 | Map showing the claimed borders of Southern and Western Kurdistan (Rojava) |
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
 | Ancient Media |
.jpg) | Ancient Media |
.jpg) | Ancient Media |
 | Median Empire, around 600 BC |
 | Median Empire, 600 BC |
.jpg) | Achaemenid Persian Empire, 588-536 BC |
.jpg) | Achaemenid Persian Empire, 579-560 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 500 BC |
 | Macedonian Empire, 336-323 |
 | Macedonian Empire |
.jpg) | Macedonian Empire, 331-301 BC |
 | Macedonian Empire |
 | Macedonian Empire |
 | Kingdoms of Corduene-Sophene, 63 BC |
 | Map by Mahmud al-Kashgari (1074), showing Arz ul Akrad Arabic for land of Kurds between Arz ush Sham (Syria), and Arz ul Iraqeyn (Iraq Arabi and Iraq Ajami). |
 | Timurid Persian Empire, 1405 |
 | Timurid Persian Empire, 1405 |
 | Timurid Persian Empire, 1405 |
.LU11.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1590 |
 | Historic map from 1721, showing borders of Curdistan provinces |
 | Old map of Kurdistan from 1785 |
 | Old map of Kurdistan from 1785 |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1787 |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1791 |
.jpg) | Detail of Kurdistan fromA New Map of Turkey in Asia published by Laurie & Whittle, London, 1794, based on the maps of Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782) |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1801 |
 | Persia in 1808 |
.jpg) | Detail of Kurdistan fromA New Map of Turkey in Asia published by William Darton (1781–1854) in London, 1811 |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1813 |
 | Persia in 1814 |
 | Detail of Kurdistan fromTurkey in Asia published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781–1854) in Baltimore, 1823 |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1856 |
 | Persia in 1848 |
._Turkey_in_Asia%2c_Transcaucasia._1861_(E).jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1861 |
._Turkey_in_Asia%2c_Transcaucasia._1861_(EF).jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1861 |
.jpg) | Old map of Kurdistan from 1862 |
| Kurdistan in 1887 |
 | Mosul province, 1897 |
 | Persia in 1900 |
 | Persia in 1916 |
 | Persia in 1921 |
.jpg) | Kurdish map of Kurdistan and the Kurds, made by the diaspora in Cario (1946) |
.jpg) | Ethnic "Kurdistan" (diagonal shading) according to the CIA in 1948 and Kurdistan (dashed outline) as claimed by the Rizgari Party in 1946. |
 | Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq in 1975 |
 | Kurdish Federation in 1998 |
 | Kurdish Federation in 1998 |
 | Kurdish areas in 2003 |
 | Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 2009 |
 | Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 2012 |
 | Governorates of Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 2012 |
 | Governorates of Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 2015 |
.svg) | Location of Iraqi Kurdistan (dark red) with respect to Iraq (white) and claimed areas (hatched) on a map of the Middle East. |
 | Iraqi Kurdistan region |
 | Iraqi Kurdistan region |
 | Iraqi Kurdistan region |
 | Iraqi Kurdistan region |
 | Governorates of Iraqi Kurdistan region |
 | Dihok Governorate of Kurdistan Region in 2012 |
 | Hewlêr Governorate of Kurdistan Region in 2012 |
 | Silêmanî Governorate of Kurdistan Region in 2012 |
 | Silêmanî Governorate of Kurdistan Region in 2015 |
 | Proposed borders of the Helebce Governorate of Kurdistan Region in 2014-2015 |
 | Kurds in Iraq, 1983 |
 | Ethnic and religious distribution of Iraq. The Kurdish population is shown in pink |
 | Kurds in Iraq |
 | Kurds in Iraq |
 | Map showing claimed and de facto territory of Rojava |
 | Map showing claimed and de facto territory of Rojava |
 | Map showing de facto borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in February 2014 |
 | Map showing de facto borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in June 2015 |
 | Map showing de facto borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in June 2015 |
 | Map showing de facto borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in October 2016 |
 | Map showing the claimed borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) |
 | Map showing the claimed borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) |
 | Map showing the claimed borders of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) |
 | Map showing de facto cantons of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in February 2014, as well as territories claimed by Western Kurdistan (Rojava), but not controlled by the Kurds in February 2014 |
 | Map showing de facto cantons of Western Kurdistan (Rojava) in February 2014 |
 | Map showing de facto cantons of Rojava |
 | Map showing de facto cantons of Rojava |
 | Map showing de facto cantons of Rojava |
 | Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran |
 | Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran |
 | Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran (yellow) |
 | Ethnoreligious distribution of Iran |
 | Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | Kurdistan province of Iran |
 | PKK Conflict |
 | Turkish Kurdistan |
General remarks:
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