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Iranian Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی کوردستان, romanized: Rojhilatê Kurdistanê)[1][2] is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically, it includes the West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan province, Kermanshah province, Ilam province and parts of Hamadan province and Lorestan province.[3][4]
In totality, Kurds are about 10% of Iran's total population.[5] According to the last census conducted in 2006, the four main Kurdish-inhabited provinces in Iran – West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah province, Kurdistan province and Ilam province – had a total population of 6,730,000.[6] Kurds generally consider northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) to be one of the four parts of a Greater Kurdistan, which under that conception are joined by parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Western Kurdistan), and northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan).[7][8]
Outside the traditional Kurdistan region, a sizable isolated community of Kurds live in north-eastern Iran, about 1000 km away from Iranian Kurdistan. They are referred to as the Kurds of Khorasan and speak the Kurmanji dialect unlike Kurds in western Iran.
- ^ Iranian Kurdistan entry for the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization): "Iranian Kurdistan, also known as eastern Kurdistan."
- ^ "Bazar û cihên giştî li Rojhilatê Kurdistanê qerebalix dibin". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). 10 April 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ Sebastian Mastel (2018). The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 236. ISBN 9781440842573.
- ^ Fattah, Ismaïl Kamandâr (2000). Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. p. 5.
- ^ "The Time of the Kurds". CFR. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Iran Provinces". Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ Iranian Kurdistan entry for the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). "Iranian Kurdistan, also known as eastern Kurdistan."
- ^ Bengio, Ofra (2014). Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland. University of Texas Press. p. 2.
Hence the terms: rojhalat (east, Iran), bashur (south, Iraq), bakur (north, Turkey), and rojava (west, Syria).
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