Who are the Kurds?

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A people originally come from Kurdistan mountains in Western of Iran. Now they live in Iran, Turkey , Iraq and some in Syria.

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The region in Iran is also written "Kordistan". Currently, there is an eastern province of Iran called Kordistan. Modern Kurds are referring to the region around Ninevah and Kirkuk in Iraq as "Kordistan".

However, their history is chequered. One of the Kurds' own historians remarks that between 1500 and 600 BC, their history seems lost. This is because of the problems in chronology that pervade the modern history of the ancient Middle East. The Kurds actually inhabit the regions known as the "Lands of the Hittites" or "Hatti Lands" (of the Egyptian hieroglyphs). In ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the scribes wrote these peoples as the "Kh-t-(a)". The ancient Greeks read this as "Ch-d-(a)" [the vowel 'a' or 'ae' is assumed in both cases].

Egyptologists equated the "Kh-t-(a)" with the Biblical Chitti (or "Hittites as in "Uriah the Hittite). Thus the name "hittites" stuck. In the Egyptian record, this nation appears in circa 1500-1100 BC, but the new Egyptian chronology that has the 18th dynasty dated from about 1000-800 BC and the 19th dynasty from about 720-600 BC brings this so-called "Hittite" history forward by about 500 years. From the Greek (e.g., by Herodotus et al) transcript of this ancient Egyptian term, we get or read "Chaldeans". And that explains the real identity behind the modern Kurds. They are descended from the Chaldeans also known as the Chasdim in ancient Hebrew. In The Bible, Nebuchadnezzar of the Kasdim is also written as "Nebuchadrezzar". However, as we find in many examples in both ancient Phoenician and even in the Hebrew Bible (The Tanaach), the letters 'r' and 'd' are often mistaken for each other. Assuming this for the case in "Nebu-chadre-zzar", we get Nebu-Chard-ezzar or Nebo's (i.e., the Planet Mercury whom this king worshipped) Tsar of the Kurds. Thus the Kurds are the descendants of the Babylonian Chaldeans whom the Prophet Isaiah (chapter 23) described as being driven out of lower Iraq by the land turning into desert. So their original homeland was in fact Southern Iraq until circa 1000-800 BC.