Situated in the heart of Asia Minor, it occupies the greater part of that mountainous region which extends between the Black Sea and the steppes of Mesopotamia on one side, and the Anti-Taurus range and the Iranian plateau, on the other. Kurdistan forms the backbone of the Middle East. On the other hand, the map indicates in Iran a western province, which is far from containing all the Kurds, even those of Iran. Today, officially, it no longer figures on maps printed in Turkey, although it did appear during the time of the Ottoman Empire. This name, in the course of centuries, has been given to those areas, more or less extensive, which have altered from epoch to epoch. A land without frontiers, Kurdistan is, it goes without saying, that country inhabited by the Kurds.
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