The Kurds in the Soviet Union by Ismet Cheriff Vanly

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THE KURDS UNDER IMPERIAL RUSSIA
by Ismet Cheriff Vanly

At the beginning of the, nineteenth century, Georgia, eastern Armenia and northern Azerbaijan were conquered by the Russians.

These territories, previously under Persian rule, all contained sizeable Kurdish minorities.

Whether these Kurds were the descendants of the Transcaucasian Kurds of earlier centuries was, except possibly in the case of the Azerbaijani Kurds, not clear in the light of the complexity of the historical changes that had taken place since the reign of the Shaddadids, let alone those of the earlier periods of the Khoren and the Medians.

All that can be stated with certainty is that the original inhabitants of Kurdistan had always overspilled its boundaries into neighbouring territories, including Transcaucasia, for reasons which ranged from economic pressures and internecine conflicts to semi-nomadism.

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