Identifier: withworldspeople05ridp (find matches)
Title: With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Washington, D.C. : C.E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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PASTi il; \l !■ I \ TKS. — Urawii by i. (.imrlinier, from a pliotograph. Kurdish race is partly within the limits of the Persian empire, and parth- within the dominions of Turkey.Extent and gen-eral character of The country extends from about the parallel of thirty-four to thirty-nine north, and from themeridian of thirty-nine to forty-seveneast from Greenwich. The area isapproximately forty thousand square The modern Kurds are divided intotwo classes: those who continue the pas-toral and migratory habit The Kurds di-of life, and those who have ^^^t^^ltl^become sedentary in towns ^^y tribes,and villages. The uplands and moun-tainous districts of Mesopotamia aremostly occupied by the nomads, whilealong the river courses, particularly on
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THE A RAM. EANS.—MODERN KLRDS. 223 the banks of the Tigris, villages havebeen established. Some of these occupythe sites of ancient cities. Perhaps nocountry in the world, with the exceptionof Egypt, Greece, and Italy, so muchabounds in interesting antiquities asdoes Kurdistan. The inscriptions of thecountry go back through all forms ofrecord to the cuneiform writing of theAssyrians. The traveler through thisregion stumbles ever and anon uponsome unmistakable evidence of the pre-occupation of the country by civilizedraces; but it requires the skill of an an-tiquary to determine to what epoch thevarious monuments, inscriptions, andremains of architecture belong. One of the striking peculiarities ofthe ethnic life of the Kurds is ancestralpride. It is in this particular that theyAncestral pride ^^^ mo^t Strongly alliedin character with the .Sem-Genealogiesare preserved and recorded by the Kurd-ish families, with a care and vanitywhich might well remind one of the hab-its of the ancien

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