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* Michael G. Morony, "Iraq After the Muslim Conquest", Gorgias Press LLC, 2005. pg 265: "Kurds were the only smaller ethnic group native to Iraq. As with the Persians, their presence along the northeastern edge of Iraq was merely an extension of their presence in Western Iran. All of the non-Persian, tribal, pastoral, Iranian groups in the foothills and the mountains of the Zagros range along the eastern fringes of Iraq were called Kurds at that time."</ref><ref>G. Asatrian, Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds, Iran and the Caucasus, Vol.13, pp.1-58, 2009: "The ancient history of the Kurds, as in case of many other Iranian ethnic groups (Baluchis, etc.), can be reconstructed but in a very tentative and abstract form"</ref><ref>Michael G. Morony, "Iraq After the Muslim Conquest", Gorgias Press LLC, 2005. pg 265: "Kurds were only small ethnic group native to Iraq. As with the Persians, their presence along the northeastern edge of Iraq was merely an extension of their presence in Western Iran. All of the non-Persian, tribal, pastoral, Iranian groups in the foothills and the mountains of the Zagros range along the eastern fringes of Iraq were called Kurd at that time.</ref><ref>E. J. van Donzel, "Islamic desk reference ", BRILL, 1994. ISBN 90-04-09738-4. pg 222: "Kurds/Kurdistan: the Kurds are an Iranian people who live mainly at the junction of more or less laicised Turkey, Shi'i Iran Arab Sunni Iraq and North Syria and the former Soviet Transcaucasia. Several dynasties, such as the Marwanids of Diyarbakir, the Ayyubids, the Shaddadis and possibly the Safawids, as well as prominent personalities, were of Kurdish origin.</ref><ref>John Limbert, ''The Origins and Appearance of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran'', Iranian Studies, Vol.1, No.2, Spring 1968, pp.41-51. p.41: "In these last areas, the historic road from Baghdad to Hamadan and beyond divides the Kurds from their Iranian cousins, the Lurs."</ref><ref>RUSSELL, JR 1990 «Pre-Christian Armenian Religion*, dans Aufstieg und Nieder- gang der Romischen Welt, II, 18.4, p. 2679-2692, Berlin-New York, 1990. , pg 2691: "A study of the pre-Islamic religion of the Kurds, an Iranian people who inhabited southern parts of Armenia from ancient times to present, has yet to be written"</ref><ref>Discoveries from Kurdish Looms by [[Robert D. Biggs]], Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, 1983, p.9 [http://books.google.com/books?id=JCHrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ethnically+the+Kurds+are+an+Iranian+people%22&dq=%22Ethnically+the+Kurds+are+an+Iranian+people%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QitmT8WFEKOciQL21ISjDw&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA "Ethnically the Kurds are an Iranian people"]</ref> هستند که در [[کردستان|کردستانات]] در منطقه ای به وسعت تقریبی ۵۰۰٬۰۰۰ کیلومتر مربع یعنی بخش‌هایی از [[خاورمیانه]] (به ویژه در [[ترکیه]]، [[عراق]] و [[سوریه]] و اقلیتی در [[قفقاز]] و [[اسرائیل]]) و [[آسیای مرکزی]] (به ویژه در [[قزاقستان]] و [[ترکمنستان]]) و در [[ایران]] (به ویژه در شمال شرق و غرب ایران) زندگی می‌کنند. علاوه بر این در سال های اخیر به علت جنگ های داخلی و خارجی جمعیت زیادی از کردها به [[اروپا]] مهاجرت کردند که پرتعدادترین آن ها در کشورهای [[آلمان]]، [[فرانسه]] و [[سوئد]] هستند. <ref>''کرد و پراکندگی او در گسترهٔ ایران‌زمین''، ح. بهتویی، تهران، ۱۳۷۷.