Kurd Mountains

36.7536.71269Koordinaten: 36 ° 45 'N, 36 ° 42 ' E

Kurd Dagh ( "Mountain of the Kurds ", Arabic جبل الاكراد Jabal al - Akrad, Kurdish Çiyayê Kurmênc / Shaxi Kurd, Turkish Kurt Dagi ( "Mountain of the Wolves" ) ) is the name of a region between Turkey and Syria, or more precisely between Gaziantep and Aleppo.

The Kurd Dagh is one of the three " ethnic " mountains of Syria. The names of the other two loud Jebel Ansariye ( " Mountain of the Alawite " ) and Jabal al-Druze ( "Mountain of the Druze ").

Geography and climate

The mountain range runs parallel to the Amano Dağları Turkey from north to south. In the south and east it is bounded by the Afrin River. In the west the plain of İslahiye - Kırıkhan and is bordered to the north the plain of Eloğlu ( Türkoğlu ) to the Kurd Dagh. The Kurd Dagh is located 700-1269 m above sea level. The highest peak is called Greh Mahsn ("great mountain"). The area has an area of ​​about 3850 km ². It is considered part of the Taurus Mountains and is geographically and historically connected to Kilis.

The Kurd Dagh is located near the Mediterranean Sea and has, therefore, like other Mediterranean areas warm humid summers and cold winters. In addition, the area is rich in water, which allows a diverse agriculture. Livestock, however, is rather limited.

Population

The area is mainly inhabited by Kurds. The largest city is Afrin.

History

The Kurdish emir and historian Şerefhan told in his Şerefname that in the Kurd Dagh Kurdish emirs of Kilis, whose influence reached as far as Antakya prevailed. The Kurd Dagh was up to the First World War, part of the Ottoman Empire and enjoyed like many other Kurdish principalities until the middle of the 19th century a certain autonomy. After the First World War, the Kurd Dagh was first incorporated into the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, and in 1946 the newly formed Syria. Unlike other Kurdish areas in Syria Kurd Dagh was not so much " Arabized ".

Others

In the wake of the Turkish national policy was the Turkish part of the Kurd Dagh of Kürt Dagi, "Mountain of the Kurds ", in Kurt verballhornt Dagi, "Mountain of the Wolf", renamed.

  • Kurdistan
  • Geography (Syria )
  • Region in Asia
  • Region in Turkey
Kurdish people Gaziantep Province Aleppo Governorate Kilis Province Afrin, Syria
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