The Kurds as an ethnicity within the Northwestern Iranian group, that’s why the first Kurd republic was set in 1910 in Iran aroma city and was approved by Russia, USA, and many other countries, but the Iranian king the father of Shah Iran didn’t like that, he ordered the army t kill and destroy the Kurds and drive them away to Iraq and turkey. He did kill the father of Barazani tribe now controlling north Iraq.
In the end of the medieval period, during the Safavid era. The name Kurds (Arabic Kurd, plural Akrad) is used throughout the medieval period, from the Islamic conquests, as a generic term for Iranian nomadic tribes.
The name Kurd predates the Islamic period, as a Middle Persian word for “nomad”, and may ultimately be derived from an ancient toponym or tribal name, that of Corduene 400 Bc.
The term Kurd is used in the 16th century by Sherefxan Bidlissi as encompassing four tribal groups of Iranian nomads, the Kurmanj, Lur, Kalhor, and Guran, each of which speak a different dialect or language variation. Paul (2008) argues that this marks an incipient ethnogenesis of the Kurds as a coherent Northwestern Iranian group, as three out of these four groups can be identified as the ancestors of groups that at least partially identify as Kurdish today, while the Lurs are not a Kurdish group, and indeed do not belong to the Northwest Iranian but to the Southwestern Iranian linguistic phylum. Paul further notes that the first texts that identifiably are written in Kurdish appear during the same period.
The Kurdish people are believed to be of heterogeneous origins combining a number of earlier tribal or ethnic groups including Lullubi, Guti, Cyrtians, Carduchi.
They have also absorbed some elements from Semitic, Turkish, Jewish, and Armenian people.
While various predecessor groups that may have contributed to Kurdish ethnogenesis are of intractable antiquity (the Gutians being a people of the Middle Bronze Age) The emergence of the Kurds as speakers of an identifiably Northwestern Iranian language (viz. Kurdish) necessarily post-dates the unity of the Northwestern branch.
19th-century scholars, such as George Rawlinson, identified Corduene and Carduchi with the modern Kurds, considering that Carduchi was the ancient lexical equivalent of “Kurdistan“. This view is supported by some recent academic sources which have considered Corduene as proto-Kurdish or as equivalent to modern-day Kurdistan.
There were numerous forms of this name, partly due to the difficulty of representing kh in Latin. They are Kurdish or khorda in Iraqi accent , that’s mean the people who have no place or they go everywhere,khorda is the lose chain.
The spelling Karduchoi is itself probably borrowed from Armenian since the termination -choi represents the Armenian language plural suffix -kh. It is speculated that Carduchi spoke an Old Iranian language.
Jewish sources trace origins of people of Corduene to the marriage of Jinns of King Solomon with 500 beautiful Jewish women. The same legend was also used by the early Islamic authorities to explain origins of Kurds.
Gershevitch and Fisher consider the independent Kardouchoi or Carduchi as the ancestors of the Kurds or at least the original nucleus of the Iranian-speaking people in what is now Kurdistan.
The Medes have often been believed to be a starting point for Kurdish (as well as Baloch) ethnic genesis. This would leave about a millennium of separate development between the collapse of the Median Empire and the first historical mention of the Kurds as an identifiable ethnic group.
The Median hypothesis was advanced by Vladimir Minorsky. Gershevitch who provided first “a piece of linguistic confirmation” of Minorsky’s identification and then another “sociolinguistic” argument. Gernot Windfuhr (1975) identified Kurdish dialects as Parthian, albeit with a Median substratum.
The median descent of the Kurds has found favor as a historical narrative among Kurds in the 20th century, so that identification of Kurds as “Medes” is now common in Kurdish nationalist sentiment, though this is incorrect.
The hypothesis is not without its detractors, among them Martin van Bruinessen (2004). Asatrian (2009) stated that “The Central Iranian dialects and primarily those of the Kashan area in the first place, as well as the Azari dialects (otherwise called Southern Tati) are probably the only Iranian dialects, which can pretend to be the direct offshoots of Median … In general, the relationship between Kurdish and Median are not closer than the affinities between the latter and other North Western dialects — Baluchi, Talishi, South Caspian, Zaza, Gurani, etc.”
There are multiple legends that detail the origins of the Kurds. One details the Kurds as being the descendants of King Solomon’s angelic servants (Djinn). These were sent to Europe to bring him five-hundred beautiful maidens, for the king’s harem. However, when these had done so and returned to Israel the king had already died. As such, the Djinn settled in the mountains, married the women themselves, and their offspring came to be known as the Kurds.
Additionally, in the legend of Newroz, an evil Assyrian king named Zahak, who had two snakes growing out of his shoulders, had conquered Iran and terrorized its subjects; demanding daily sacrifices in the form of young men’s brains. Unknowingly to Zahak, the cooks of the palace saved one of the men and mixed the brains of the other with those of a sheep. The men that were saved were told to flee to the mountains. Hereafter, Kaveh the Blacksmith, who had already lost several of his children to Zahak, trained the men in the mountains, and stormed Zahak’s palace, severing the heads of the snakes and killing the tyrannical king. Kaveh was installed as the new king, and his followers formed the beginning of the Kurdish people.
In the writings of the Ottoman Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, there’s also a legend concerning the Kurds to be found. He states to have learned of this legend from a certain Mighdisî, an Armenian historian:
According to the chronicler Mighdisî, the first town to be built after Noah’s Flood was the town of Judi, followed by the fortresses of Sinjar and Mifariqin. The town of Judi was ruled by Malik Kürdim of the Prophet Noah’s community, a man who lived no less than 600 years and who traveled the length and width of Kurdistan. Coming to Mifariqin he liked its climate and settled there, begetting many children and descendants. He invented a language of his own, independent of Hebrew. It is neither Hebrew nor Arabic, Persian, Dari or Pahlavi; they still call it the language of Kürdim. So the Kurdish language, which was invented in Mifariqin and is now used throughout Kurdistan, owes its name to Melik Kürdim of the community of the Prophet Noah. Because Kurdistan is an endless stony stretch of mountains, there are no less than twelve varieties of Kurdish, differing from one another in pronunciation and vocabulary, so that they often have to use interpreters to understand one another’s words.
They are from Iran and Turkey, moved to Iraq to support Alexander the great of his invasion of Iran and Iraq and then stayed in Iran after Alexander the Great killed the king of Persia and gave the Kurds vast land. In a time when Shah Iran family took over, they are pure Persian and they didn’t like the Kurds so they started to kill them and deport them back to Turkey and Iraq. Many settled down in Iraq with the help of the Turkish emperor to be in the front as a buffer zone as the Othman empire and Persia still at war.The Kurds provided a good buffer zone against the Persian aggression and some stay in north Iraq and now they want to make a state within the state! They should go back and fight the Persian and kick them out , but the fall of Saddam brought Iranians government a puppet Shia government that do what Iran tells them to do and they want the Kurd to stay in Iraq so they don’t claim Iranian land anymore. The Shia , Iranians, Hezbollah, Syrian Shia , Turkish all will lie and say they are from Iraq.They are not.