Kurdish Life past.

From: Kurdish Life | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Coon, Carleton S. | Copyright information

By far the largest area of high-valley and mountaintop pastoralism in the Middle East is that of the Zagros chain in Iran, Turkey and Iraq, and especially in Iran. Four different groups of hardy mountaineers are concerned: the Kurds, the Lurs, the Bakhtiari, and the Qashqai. Like the Berbers, the Kurds are a complete people in that they include farmers, city dwellers, and nomads and carry on a variety of occupations. Their home is the Zagros chain north of Kermanshah, as far as and ...

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