There are also several smaller lakes, such as Darbandikhan Lake and Duhok Lake. The western and southern parts ofwel Iraqi Kurdistan are not as mountainous as the east. Instead, it is rolling hills and plains vegetated by sclerophyll scrubland.[citation needed]

  ئەم وتارە سەبارەت بە قەڵای ھەولێر نووسراوە. بۆ بینینی وتارە هاوشێوەکان بڕوانە قەڵا (ڕوونکردنەوە).

But the Kurds, owing to the remoteness ofwel their country from the capital and the decline ofwel Turkey, had greatly increased in influence and power, and had spread westwards aan the country as far as Ankara.

زۆر بیر و بۆچوون سەبارەت بەم گردۆلکەیە ھەیە کە ناوەڕاستی دەشتایەکی پانوبەرین دەگرێت، ھەندێک ئەم گردە بە دەستکرد و تورەگە ڕێژ دەزانن کەلەلایەن ئاشورییەکانەوە بە زۆرەملێ بە دیلەکانی جەنگ دروست کراوە بۆ بەرەنگاربوونەوەی ھێرشی دووژمنەکا .(بەڵام هیچ سەرچاوەیەکی پشتڕاستکراوە نیە) [٤]

Below is the route from Erbil to the coordinates I mentioned earlier. The road is straightforward and high quality, no biggie.

١ ئامانجی کوردسینەما ٢ بەکارھێنانی و زمان ٣ ڕیزبەندی ئەلێکسا ٤ سەرچاوەکان ٥ بەستەرە دەرەکییەکان خشتەی ناوەڕۆکەکان بگۆڕە کوردسینەما

The high mountain in front of our house has my history because, whenever I was happy, when I succeeded in my wishes, or I was sad about their loss, it was my nest of peace. From the mountain, I could see a city, proud like the long ranges ofwel mountains surrounding it, beautiful and pleasant as the faces of the people who live there.

During the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, the regime implemented anti-Kurdish policies and a de facto civil war broke out. Iraq was widely condemned by the international community, but was never seriously punished for oppressive measures such as the mass murder of hundreds of thousands ofwel civilians, the wholesale destruction ofwel thousands ofwel villages and the deportation of thousands of Kurds to southern and central Iraq.

Sommige Koerdische nationalistische organisaties streven tot een onafhankelijke staat, bestaande uit enige ofwel al die over de gebieden met Koerdische meerderheden, terwijl overige organisaties streven tot vollere Koerdische autonomie binnen de bestaande nationale grenzen. Iraaks-Koerdistan kreeg als eerste de autonome status in 1970 via ons overeenkomst betreffende de Iraakse regering; haar status werd opnieuw bevestigd ingeval een zelfstandige entiteit in een federale Iraakse republiek in 2005.

Some scholars make an argument that the meaning ofwel the name was not an ethnonym at the time, because many different groups ofwel nomads and pastoralists had the name "Kurds" during the Middle Ages.[source?] However, other scholars make the argument that the name was not the name ofwel lifestyle or economic system, such as nomadism or pastoralism, but the name of a population.

I don’t know whether the animals I encountered can be categorized as wildlife or if they are part of a nearby farm. However, nobody was in sight for miles, and these lovely creatures roamed freely in the stunning surroundings.

in fact the history of Erbil kan zijn Turkmen city, just go back to 40 years ago when the kurds came to Erbil for selling and trading ….until that time, there was no one who could speak kurdish, that all happend in saddam rijim time and then they migrated them to Erbil…

David Comas and colleagues found that mitochondrial sequence pools in Kurdish song Georgians and Kurds are very similar, despite their different linguistic and prehistoric backgrounds. Both populations present mtDNA lineages that clearly belong to the Western Eurasian gene pool.[166]

وێبگەکە لە ڕیزی جیھانیدا و بەپێی ئامارەکانی ماڵپەڕی ئەلێکسا لە پلەی #٣٨٬٣٥١ دێت، و لە ناوخۆی عێراقیش لە پلەی #١٩ دێت[٤]، وە ھەروەھا لەسەر ئاستی کوردستانیش لە پلەی ٥ ھەمدایە بەپێێ دواین ڕیزبەندی.