The Kizilbash Clans of Kurdistan
by Melville Chater
The National Geographic Magazine
Volume LIV, No. 2, October 1928
About this Article
This article is an account of the author’s travels in the Kurdish areas of Turkey in the mid-1920s, shortly after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic under Kemal Ataturk.
The Kizilbash Kurds were mainly concentrated in the north-eastern part of the country, especially in the provinces of Sivas, Erzurum, Diyarbakir, and Harput.
The Kurdish people, or Kurds, are an Indo-European people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They speak the Kurdish language, which is member of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages.
About the Author Melville Chater
Melville Chater was an American traveller who also wrote about village life in Anatolia.
About The National Geographic
The National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the American National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover
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