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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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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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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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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Turkish Kurdistan (redirect from Kurds in Eastern Turkey)
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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Battle of Tabqa (redirect from Battle of Tabqa Dam)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Hasankeyf (section Ilısu Dam impact)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Religion in Syria (section Kurds)
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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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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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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Islam in Syria (section Kurds)
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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death and life:Kurd Press". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22. "Kani Bil will disappear because of Daryan dam:Khabar online"...
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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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Rojava conflict (redirect from Kurds during the Syrian civil war)
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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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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Andimeshk (section Karkheh Dam)
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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Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams". In Qing, Dai (ed.). The river dragon has come! The Three Gorges Dam and...
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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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2004 Qamishli riots (category Persecution of Kurds in Syria)
The 2004 Qamishli riots were an uprising by Syrian Kurds in the northeastern city of Qamishli in March 2004, which culminated in a massacre by the Syrian...
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