Ari @KurdiCompendium

Kurd. Don't bother following this account if you are seeking generic twitter slop. History, Genomics, Archaeology, and Linguistics. Joined September 2022

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Ancestral Whispers @Sulkalmakh

4 hours ago

Facial reconstruction of a 2,800-year-old man from Hasanlu, Iran. The Iron Age inhabitants of Hasanlu were likely Mannaeans, a Hurrian people with a possible Armenic substrate.

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

3 weeks ago

Who were the Kurds of Fars Province? The following excerpt from Al-Istakhri, writing in the early 900s AD and himself a native of the city of Istakhr in south-west Iran, provides some background information about his province. These Kurds in the heartland of Persis itself are…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

4 weeks ago

The Gorans are a subgroup of Kurds inhabiting certain parts of Kurdistan who have traditionally spoken a distinct north-western Iranian language separate from Kurdish, despite identifying as Kurds. Historically, they also differed socially from other Kurds, living sedentary lives…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

a month ago

The Q-YP1228/Q-YP1229 clade possibly represents one of the first identifiably pan-Kurdish lineages, originating from one of the original NCS tribes and tracing back to a man who lived around 266 AD. Given the limited number of Southern Kurdish testers, it is possible that…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

2 months ago

The Middle East during the reign of the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon in the 7th century BC. Best known for his campaigns against the Iranian Medes, his successful conquest of Egypt, and for reversing his father Sennacherib’s hostile policy toward Babylonia by rebuilding the city.

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

3 months ago

Are the Mhallamis and Kosewis of Mardin Kurdish or Turkish? The short answer is: neither. These groups are traditionally sedentary farmers from the mountainous regions of Mardin and can be broadly divided into two communities: Mhallamis in the east and Kosewis in the west. They…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

3 months ago

The diagram is titled "صورة الجبال" (Ṣūrat ul-Jibāl), which translates to "Image of the Mountains." Within it there are some highlights of the summer and winter resorts of the Kurds, located in the centre of the map, which I have highlighted in yellow. The rough locations appear…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

3 months ago

Al-Dinawari’s account of the aftermath of the infamous anti-Abbasid rebellions places Ja‘far al-Kurdī alongside figures such as Bābak-i Khurramdīn and Māzyār among the major uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate during the reign of al-Muʿtaṣim in the 830s AD. His crucifixion…

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Ari @KurdiCompendium

3 months ago

An exhaustive list of the main R1a clades relevant to Indo-Iranians. A few points are worth mentioning: non-Z93 Indo-Iranian R1a clades do exist, although they are less common. Approximately 80% of Indic R1a lineages are concentrated on R-M605. Other clades, such as R-S23592 and…