«Map showing kingdoms of Corduene and Adiabene in the last centuries BC. The blue line shows the expedition and then retreat of the ten thousand through Corduene in 401 BC.» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduene#/media/File:Asia_minor_p20.jpg

«60 BC Kingdom of Corduene» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduene#/media/File:Near_East_ancient_map.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurds#/media/File:Corduene_sophene_commagene_osrhoene.png
The
Ayyubid dynasty: «The most flourishing period of Kurdish power was probably during the
12th century, when the great Saladin, who belonged to the Rawendi branch
of the Hadabani (or Adiabene) tribe, founded the Ayyubite (1171–1250) dynasty of Syria, and Kurdish chieftainships were established, not only to the west of the Kurdistan mountains in Syria, but as far away as Egypt and Yemen.» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurds

https://books.google.pt/books?id=Qi2TgAAazZwC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=women+of+the+Ayyubid+family&source=bl&ots=UIHFLRmB_H&sig=UqKjDWBbM_J55mhMJfcY4ciTxy0&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjnt7Pf2ozKAhXEhhoKHSOqAM0Q6AEIOTAE#v=onepage&q=women%20of%20the%20Ayyubid%20family&f=false
Selahedînê Eyûbî founded Ayyubid Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty#/media/File:Ayyubid_Sultanate_1193_AD.jpg
«In the second half of the 10th century there were five Kurdish principalities: in the North the Shaddadid (951–1174) (in parts of Armenia and Arran) and Rawadid (955–1221) in Tabriz and Maragheh, in the East the Hasanwayhids (959–1015), the Annazid (990–1117) (in Kermanshah, Dinawar and Khanaqin) and in the West the Marwanid (990–1096) of Diyarbakır.» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurds


Hisn al Akrad, «Castle of the Kurds» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_des_Chevaliers_01.jpg
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crac_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Il_Krak_dei_Cavalieri.jpg
«Sit tibi copia, sit sapientia, formaque detur ; Inquinat omnia sola superbia, si comitetur.
Translation: Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, but beware pride which alone can tarnish all the rest.» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_des_chevaliers_inscription_latine.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_des_chavaliers_plaine.jpg
Settlement of Kurds in XI Century (1030-1099 a.C.), the Castle was rebuilt in XII Century by Hospitaliers after 1142 d.C., until that year controled by County of Tripoli.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:La_plaine_d%27El_Bukeia_vue_du_Krak_des_chevaliers_en_1970.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/HPIM3108.JPG/800px-HPIM3108.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Krak_des_Chevaliers_11.jpg/800px-Krak_des_Chevaliers_11.jpg
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_des_Chevaliers_09.jpg
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_westliche_Ringmauern.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Chapel_of_Krak_des_Chevaliers_05.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Hall_of_the_Knights_-_Krak_des_Chevaliers.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Chapel_of_Krak_des_Chevaliers_01.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Krak_des_Chevaliers_22.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Chapel_of_Krak_des_Chevaliers_04.jpg
Hims Gap - NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homs_Gap#/media/File:Hims_Gap_sat.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orontes_River#/media/File:Map_of_the_Orontes_river.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Map_Crusader_states_1135-en.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers#/media/File:Map_Crusader_states_1190-en.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurds#/media/File:Kurdish_states_1835.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava#/media/File:Ethnicturkey1911.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Kurdistan#/media/File:Kurdistan1920.png

«Kingdom of Kurdistan in 1923» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan#/media/File:Kingdom_of_Kurdistan_%281923%29.png
Red Kurdistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistansky_Uyezd#/media/File:Red_kurdistan_1930.png

«Kurdish-inhabited areas in 1992 according to the CIA» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava#/media/File:Kurdish-inhabited_area_by_CIA_%281992%29.jpg

«Cappadocia (
Kurdish: Kapadozîa,Qaba Dizya,Qapadozia or Kapadozia= Secret place)
is a Kurdish historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir (Kurdish: "New Sher" The New city) Province.
In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying
the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black
Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain
of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by
the upper Euphrates and the Kurdish Highland, to the north by Pontus,
and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia.» http://zagros-mesopotamia-anatolia-kurds.blogspot.pt/2012/08/cappadocia-kurdish-kapadoziaqaba.html
southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan)

Kurds in Diyarbakir
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/01/10/world/TURKEY_span/TURKEY-articleLarge.jpg
northern Syria (Western Kurdistan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koban%C3%AE_Canton#/media/File:Rojava_february2014_2.png
western Iran (Eastern Kurdistan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Province#/media/File:Kurdistan_province.png
«A view of Sanandaj, the second-largest city in Iranian Kurdistan»

Flag of Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan (Southern Kurdistan)

«Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan#/media/File:Hewler-Kurdistan.jpg

«Greater Zab River near Erbil Kurdistan» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan#/media/File:Greater_Zab_River_near_Erbil_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg
«A canyon near the northern city of Rawandiz» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan#/media/File:Canyon,_north_eastern_Kurdistan.jpg

«Agriculture» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan#/media/File:Iraqi_Kurdish_villagers_in_field_near_Turkish_border.jpg

Turkish tyranny must stop against Kurdish Persons! http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00947/NIP000179549657_947494c.jpg

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/06/05/arts/ABROAD-Jp-1/ABROAD-Jp-1-articleLarge.jpg