Kurdistan

[ kur-duh-stan; Persian koor-di-stahn ]

noun

1. a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
2. any of several types of rugs woven by the Kurds of Turkey or Iran.

Kurdistan

/ ˌkɜːdɪˈstɑːn /

noun

1. a large plateau and mountainous region, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, south of the Caucasus. Area: over 29 000 sq km (74 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Police in Iraqi Kurdistan reportedly detained Sedighi for three weeks after she spoke with BBC Persian about the treatment of LGBTQ and intersex people in the region.

From Washington Blade

To Western ears, a town where old men dress up to go smuggling, in a mountain range called the Zagros, in an imaginary country called Kurdistan, which historians say doubles as an approximation for Eden, can all sound a little unreal.

From Outside Online

Heading east across Iraqi Kurdistan toward the Zagros Mountains and the border with Iran, we pass from a land of sand and dust into the green prairies of Mesopotamia.

From Outside Online

A specialist in heart and heart-lung transplants, he had once suffered a heart attack while working in the embattled Iraqi region of Kurdistan during the regime of Saddam Hussein.

From Washington Post

All the roads into Iraqi Kurdistan and toward Baghdad are closed and now the road toward Syria is also blocked.

From The Daily Beast

Children are dear to their mothers, but our land, Kurdistan, is also dear to us.

From The Daily Beast

Dincer expects calls for an independent Kurdistan to grow louder as a consequence of the fighting.

From The Daily Beast

The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has publicly come out for the independence of Kurdistan.

From The Daily Beast

But I keep hearing that Kurdistan will gain its independence and this will be over.

From The Daily Beast

The Porte was likewise under the necessity of using its arms against some tribes which had rebelled in Kurdistan.

From Project Gutenberg

The Ottoman Government is only now extending its power, as a practical thing, into Kurdistan at all.

From Project Gutenberg

In Kurdistan the war was simply a large instance of the feuds that had always been fought out in the land since time began.

From Project Gutenberg

Hamdi was not allowed to return to Kurdistan until after he was a grown man and had almost forgotten his native language.

From Project Gutenberg

Shalmaneser's first campaign was against the restless tribes of Kurdistan.

From Project Gutenberg