Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1753
According to this map, the borders of Kerkûk, Hewlêr, Sherizor, Cizîr, Van, Botan, Amedi, Hekari, Bedlîs, Sêrt, Mûş and Mûsil are considered Kurdistan.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posts about Kerkûk
This map is the Ottoman Map of 1730 by "Johann Baptist Homann".
Mûsil, Kerkûk, Sehrizor, Van, Bedlîs, Sêrt, Hewlêr, Botan, Cizîr etc. While it is considered to be from the "Kurdistan" province.
The area between Bazid and Van is also called "Curdorum".
Curdorum regio : The region where Kurds are located/live.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Sh. Ali Tantawi writes about Karkuk in his memoirs recounting his long stay in the city in the 1930s :
“The population of this region are Kurdish”
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Demographic change began in Kerkûk since the era of the Ottomans with the aim of suppressing the Kurdish revolts against the Ottomans led by Murad IV in the seventeenth century.
The book “Iraqi Celebrities” by Abdul Abdul Majeed Fahd Hassan
The book “The Kurds of Iraq are a state within a state.” - Ofra Bengio
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm, Şemseddin Sâmî 1889
Kerkûk... 30,000 inhabitants, a castle, 36 mosques and masjids, 5 madrasahs, 15 taqiyas and zawiyyas, 12 inns, 1282 stores and shops, bazaars, 8 baths... Three rubi (three parts) of its population are Kurds and the rest are Turks and Arabs, etc. "
By this account, Turkmens made up less than a quarter of the population of Kerkûk.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Sestini Domenico (1750-1832) an Italian orientalist who traveled in ottoman empire said this :
"Kerkûk is habited by kurds"
Voyage de Constantinople à Bassora, par Sestini Domenico, p.233
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
The Ottoman Encyclopedia Dictionary of Science, volume 5, page 3846;
located in Kerkûk, Kurdistan governorate. Kurdish Kerkûk.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
An old Iraqi government document confirmed that most of the inhabitants of Kırkuk were Kurds.
- The first edition of the book Geography of Iraq - Daral Salam Publications, Baghdad, 1304 Hijra/1924, (Haşim El Saadi, p. 213) Upon the death of Kerkûk in general: The population of Kerkûk reached 19 thousand (ten-nine thousand) people. , mostly Kurdish population. There are a few Arabs, a few Persians (i.e. Kurds) and a few Turks.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Kourdistan, Bochtans, Diarbeck, Hemedan, Kerkouid...
Jonas Hanway, 1753
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Rect. zu Chemnitz Ausführliche Geographie by Johann Georg Hager, a German educator and geographer in 1747, he wrote about the Persian invasion of Kerkûk in that section that he talks about Kurdistan.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
تم قراءته في المدارس و دار المعلمين في العراق كجزء من منهاج المدرسة في عام 1924. ويكتب عن كركوك على النحو التالي: “تقع مدينة كركوك على نهر الخاسة ويمكن تقسيمها إلى ثلاثة أجزاء [...] المدينة تتألف من 19,000 شخصًا ومعظمهم من الأكراد.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
The Arab geographer and cartographer El-Îdrîsî (1099-1165) In his work titled "Nüzhatül-Müştâk", and known as "Tabula Rogeriana" written in 1154 Mûsil and Kerkûk were recorded as Kurdish territory.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
In 1896, the Ottoman encyclopedist Şemseddîn Samî gave very detailed information on Kerkûk: “The total population is 30,000... Three out of four people in Kerkûk are Kurds, while one in four of them are Turkoman, Arabs, & others. In the city, there are 760 Jews & 460 Kildans.”
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
The official Iraqi population statistics for 1922-4 state that the population of Kerkuk is 19,000ٚ, “the Kurds make up most of the population, with smaller numbers of Arabs, Persians, and Turkmens.”
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
According to Muslim historians Al-Umari (d. 1384) and Al-Qalqashandi (d. 1418), Kerkuk (Korkura), Daquq, and the Kerkûk citadel (Kurkhin) were inhabited by the Hasnani Kurds.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Géographie Historique, Ecclesiastique Et Civile, Ou Description de toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, enrichie de Cartes Géographiques, Volume 10, Par Joseph Vaissète · 1755
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Map from 1719
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
The magazine (ثروت فنون), published in 1909 during the Ottoman Empire, says that Kerkûk is a Kurdish city.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
In 1782, the Italian traveler Sestini described Kerkûk as the capital of Shahrizor, inhabited by Kurds
Posted by Zagrosian · Found by أوموت | Umut · 10 June 2025