• Kürd-Dam (Kurd-Dam) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. This village came under the occupation of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh...
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    Kurdistan (redirect from Kurd land)
     'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent...
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    The Tabqa Dam (Arabic: سَدُّ الطَّبْقَةِ, romanized: Sadd aṭ-Ṭabqah, Kurdish: Bendava Tebqa; Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܛܒܩܗ, romanized: Sekro d'Tabqa),...
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    Yazidis (redirect from Yezidi Kurds)
    word origin relates to Ez dā ('Created me'). Yazidis also refer to Xwedê ez dam ('God created me') and to Em miletê ezdaîn ('We are the Ezdayi nation')....
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    The Battle for Mosul Dam took place in August 2014 between militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Kurdish Peshmerga forces,...
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  • during an archaeological survey in advance of the construction of the Ilısu Dam and has been excavated by a team from Mardin Museum since 2012. The discovery...
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    part of Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey,...
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  • Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014) (category Persecution of Kurds in Iraq)
    west from Mosul, the Islamic State conquered Zumar, Sinjar, Wana, Mosul Dam, Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Batnaya and Kocho, and in the region south and east...
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    with the rest being Kurds in the YPG and the YPJ. Four towns were also seized as part of the landings and it was believed that the dam and general area were...
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    Extremists in Iraq Seize 3 Towns From Kurds and Threaten Major Dam". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2014. "Kurds, Islamic State clash near Kurdish...
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    city and its archaeological sites have been flooded as part of the Ilısu Dam project. By 1 April 2020, water levels reached an elevation of 498.2m, covering...
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  • The Bekhme Dam (Kurdish: بەنداوی بێخمە ,Bendava Bêxme) is an unfinished multi-purpose rock-fill dam on the Great Zab 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of...
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    Telegram channel and social media accounts. The YPG mostly consists of Kurds, but also includes Arabs and foreign volunteers; it is closely allied to...
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    DAM (Arabic: دام) is a Palestinian hip-hop group founded in 1999 by brothers Tamer and Suhell Nafar and their friend Mahmoud Jreri from the mixed city...
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    peninsula surrounded by the natural Lake Hazar and reservoirs of Keban Dam, Karakaya Dam, Kıralkızı and Özlüce. Its population is 387,072 (2022). Elazığ was...
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    non-Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslim Kurds formed 8.3% of the population. By 1979 Dr. Nikolaos van Dam claimed that the Syrian Kurds (forming 8.5% of the population...
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    Jalawla, Bashiqa, Sinjar and Makhmur. The strategically important Mosul Dam was also captured by Kurdish forces. However, the control was only temporary...
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    full capture of Tabqa city, dam". UPI. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018. "Kurds, allies seize ISIS supply route...
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    Before the dam was built the orchards and other crops were irrigated, but the olive trees were not. The Afrin District is populated by Kurds, the furthest...
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  • Former Trần Lập† (1) Hồ Ngọc Hà (1) Mỹ Linh (2) Hồng Nhung (2) Quốc Trung (2) Đàm Vĩnh Hưng (1–3) Mỹ Tâm (3) Thu Minh (1, 4) Đông Nhi (4) Tóc Tiên (4–5) Noo...
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    Syria has built two more dams in the Euphrates, the Baath Dam and the Tishrin Dam, and plans to build a fourth dam – the Halabiye Dam – between Raqqa and Deir...
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    forced to pay bribes." The highest amount of energy is produced by the Tabqa Dam at the Euphrates river, Syrians largest. The main sources of revenue for...
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    needed] The dam is not 127 m high rather 48 m and River Dez has the dam with 127m high and build by American multinational company. The Karkheh Dam damaged...
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    upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria, known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or Rojava. During the Syrian civil war that began in...
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  • The Silveh Dam (Persian: سد سیلوه) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Lavin River just downstream of the village of Silveh in Piranshahr County, West...
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    Dukan Dam straddles the Little Zab some 150 miles upstream from its confluence with the Tigris River. Constructed between 1954 and 1959, the dam has a...
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    in the period 1990–2007. Both pipelines are operated by BOTAŞ. The Batman dam construction was started in 1986 and completed in 1999. It has a height of...
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    The Movement of Salah al-Din the Kurd (Kurdish: بزووتنەوەى كورد سه‌لا‌حه‌دین; Arabic: حركة صلاح الدين الكردي; Turkish: Selahaddin Kurdi Hareketi) is a...
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  • Diyala Province. It has a population of 45,500 as of 2018. Darbandikhan Dam Diyala River "کوردستانڕێگای سەرەكی دەربەندیخان دادەخرێت" (in Kurdish). Archived...
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    they make up 60% of the population. In 1979, Dr. Nikolaos van Dam said that the Syrian Kurds formed 8.5% of the population and were almost exclusively Sunni...
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