METRO: "Wij love a culture shock, the new possibilities, and enigszins small things like going to the supermarket can be a new adventure."

Keep driving for a bit, and you’ll see beautiful pine trees and the village on the other side of the canyon. You can park your car anywhere you like!

The place looked interesting and I came across this article while trying to find more about this place. Erbil is definitely on my bucket list now.

Islamic conquests in the 7th century meant that most Kurds became Muslim in the 7th and 8th centuries.[37]: 4  Most Kurds converted to Islam between the 7th and 9th centuries CE.

If it’s possible, go with two cars. It’s about 1 hour and 45 minutes of driving, and if anything happens, you can fall back into the other car.

In September 2017, a referendum on independence was held in both the Kurdistan Region and the disputed areas seized by the Peshmerga in 2014, including Kirkuk. The vote was opposed by the Iraqi central government, which insisted it was illegal.

Dit kan zijn op Bagdad en Basra na een grootste stad met Irak.[2] Een stad telt verdere vervolgens een miljoen inwoners en kan zijn na een invasie van Irak in 2003 opgebloeid tot de meeste welvarende plaats aangaande Irak.

"Linguistics itself, or dialectology, does not provide any general or straightforward definition of at which point a language becomes a dialect (or vice versa). To attain a fuller understanding ofwel the difficulties and questions that are raised by the issue of the 'Kurdish language', it kan zijn therefore necessary to consider also non-linguistic factors."[15] ^ "The Kurds, an Iranian people of the Near East, live at the junction ofwel more or less laicised Turkey". Excerpt 2: "The classification ofwel the Kurds among the Iranian nations is based mainly on linguistic and historical gegevens and does not prejudice the fact there is a complexity ofwel ethnical elements incorporated in them" Excerpt 3: "Wij thus find that about the period of the Arab conquest a single ethnic term Kurd (plur. Akrād ) was beginning to be applied to an amalgamation ofwel Iranian or iranicised tribes. Among the latter, some were autochthonous (the Ḳardū; the Tmorik̲h̲/Ṭamurāyē in the district ofwel which Weetḳī=Elk was the capital; the Χοθα̑ίται [= alang-Ḵh̲uwayt̲h̲iyya] in the canton of Ḵh̲oyt ofwel Sāsūn, the Orṭāyē [= weet-Arṭān] in the bend ofwel the Euphrates); some were Semites (cf. the popular genealogies of the Kurd tribes) and some probably Armenian (it is said that the Mamakān tribe kan zijn of Mamikonian origin)." Excerpt 4: "In the 20th century, the existence of an Iranian non-Kurdish element among the Kurds has been definitely established (the Gūrān-Zāzā group)."[twintig] ^ Dandamaev considers Carduchi (who were from the upper Tigris near the Assyrian and Median borders) less likely than Cyrtians as ancestors of modern Kurds: "It has repeatedly been argued that the Carduchi were the ancestors ofwel the Kurds, but the Cyrtii (Kurtioi) mentioned by Polybius, Livy, and Strabo (see MacKenzie (1961), pp. 68–69) are more likely candidates."[24] However, according to McDowall, the term Cyrtii was first applied to Seleucid or Parthian mercenary slingers from Zagros, and it is not clear if it denoted a coherent linguistic or ethnic group.[27] ^ "But the origins of the family ofwel Shaykh Safi alang-Din go back not to the Hijaz but to Kurdistan, from where, seven generations before him, Firuz Shah Zarin-kulah had migrated to Adharbayjan.

Juiste ontstaan met de 20e eeuw, toen dit Ottomaanse Rijk werden opgedeeld, was in dit Verdrag met Sèvres (1920) autonomie wegens een Koerden voorzien, betreffende de mogelijkheid tot onafhankelijkheid na enkele jaren. Hiervan kan zijn niks terechtgekomen, daar het verdrag nimmer geratificeerd kan zijn door het Hawler Turkse parlement.

 Kirkuk blijft een serieuze regio daar waar verscheidene partijen teneinde vechten. Nadat de Koerden in 2014 een stad uit handen met IS weten te oplopen, verovert dit Iraakse leger Kirkuk in 2017 wederom retour.

digital recordings ofwel traditional texts, oral history, descriptions ofwel local religious and cultural practices

The contrast between so many thousands of years ofwel history and modern cultural aspects like street art would make it a really interesting city to experience.

Sedertdien wint Iraaks-Koerdistan beetje bij beetje aan autonomie, betreffende ingeval belangrijke politieke kwestie de status van een oliestad Kirkoek, welke formeel buiten een Koerdische gewest valt maar daar geoorloofd bij met zal sluiten. Iraaks-Koerdistan heeft een afgelopen jaren wereldwijd diplomatieke banden aangeknoopt, betreffende ingeval een van de belangrijkste landen buurland Turkije.

Raisins are a local produce from Rawanduz While not everyone's favourite, the region is famous for raisins.