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Kurdistan (literally meaning "the land of Kurds"; Ancient: Corduene, old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia) is the name of a geographic and cultural (but not political or administrative) region in theMiddle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds. As a traditional ethnographic region, Kurdistan is generally held to include the contiguous regions in northern and northeasternMesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. From a political standpoint,Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained an official recognition as a federal entity. The region was known by various cognates of the wordKurd during the ancient history of theMesopotamia. The ancientSumerians referred to it asKur-a,Gutium, orLand of Karda, theElamites asKurdasu, theAkkadians asKurtei, theAssyrians asKurti, theBabylonians asQardu, theGreeks asCarduchoi and theRomans asCorduene.more..
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