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@hikma history Please quote facts, not conjecture Karim Khan was NOT Kurdish, he was a proud Iranian of Lur origin. Lorestan as it's known today, was part of the Elamite people which included the Kurds NOT the other way around.
❤☀💚🦅Kurdistan is over 8000 years old. ☀Medes☀Aryans☀Mesopotamians☀Ayyubids☀Safavids☀Zand☀Yezids🦚 The Kurds are one of the oldest cultural peoples on earth and were mentioned in Sumerian texts over 4,000 years ago. Southern Kurdistan: The city of Erbil is considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its age is estimated at more than 8,000 years. The Citadel of Erbil, which is located in the center of the city, has been continuously inhabited for over 6,000 years and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. Eastern Kurdistan: The ancient city of **Hasanlu** in the province of West Azerbaijan is an important archaeological site dating back to the 6th millennium BC. Northern Kurdistan: **Göbekli Tepe**, one of the oldest known temple complexes in the world, is located near Şanlıurfa and dates back to the 10th millennium BC. AD Western Kurdistan: The ruins of **Tell Halaf** are an important archaeological site dating back to the 6th millennium BC.
Kurd and Turk (in Iran) are made up terms in the 20th century, in those days they cared about their tribe and family and the empire they were from, not "ethnicity" and language.
It is a fact that the origin of the safavids were Kurds. I think, it was Ismail the first, who did not consider himself as a Kurd. National identity was Not important...their understanding of identity ist different.
As a Kurd feel much closer to Iranian than Turks or Arabs and I feel so because the language. I have never learned any Persian but can understand it good but not all.
I am Kurdish. I have been watching ur channel for years, bro u dont know how happy i was when i saw this vedio❤️. Bijî Hikma history(meaning long live Hikma history)😂
Iran is a garden of many different flowers. Our friends from Iraqi and Turkish Kurdestan have sadly been so mistreated and brutalized by Turks and Arabs that they think it must be the same in Iran. So when they see other Iranian ethnicities that look like them, speak a similar language, wear similar clothes, have the same traditions, etc. they think they must be Kurds, instead of realizing that they themselves are part of a bigger whole. In fact, Iran is the birthplace of Kurds. All Kurdish customs, traditions, myths, calendar and even DNA is shared by other Iranians. The capital of the Medes is deep inside Iran. There has never been a time in history when Kurds were not part of Iran. I hope the day will come when we'll be able to put these petty difference aside and recognize each other as members of the same family.
I am myself an Iranian Kurd and I am also a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and we Kurds and we Yazidi Kurds are IRANIANS and ARYANS and Kurdistan region should come back to Iran!
I'm sunni kurd , All these borders set by the west made this problem and the gov in iran are on the side of the west , they came to Syria just to killll sunni arabs and now we see their lies of fighting isntreal , the dissolving of border is the first move which all of these proxy gov won't do peacefully. The origins aren't important as Islam
No you’re spreading propaganda . The Kurds have always been treated well in Turkey. There is no oppression at all for 20 years. Kurds on the other hand have engaged in massacres against Turks and Turkmen when they had the opportunity. Read the history of Turkmen in Iraq if you want to know what oppression is. Kurds are opportunistic people. You have blood on your hands. Turkey has never engaged in a massacre against Kurds .
It's fact Persians make fun of Kirdish clothing on their natural tv.i worked with few Persians in the west and they always made fun of Kurds and bullied me. I cried when one said, my husband wear lurdish pants when he needs to do dirty gardening jobs. Also I knew a persian woman dat8ng a kurdish man but she always said Kurds are so ugly, kurds are this and that. She would say the worst things about kurds and at the same time she was dating a kirdish guy and lives in Kurdistan region. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Why can’t all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples not all become Persians or Kurds or Ossetian ect…so that no country can divide our 600 million Aryan/Iranian Peoples into small small states?!
@@Yazdegerdiranyar Do you mean all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples will become either Persian or Kurds ect… or what do you mean by it will happen?!
7:16 A little mistake: Azad Khan Afghan didn't take over "modern day Azerbaijan" as the land he took over was called Azerbaijan at that time as well. Basically, throughout history, Azerbaijan has always been south of Aras river, it was only in 1918 that the lands in south Caucasus were called by that name too when the new republic in Baku appropriated the name.
Azerbaijan was always north of Araz and the South of Aras river.Shirvan and Aran is a geographical toponyms within Azerbaijan state's name.Stop.spreading persian propoganda
@@Azerchayforever221 What you call Persian propaganda is literally everywhere on every source while the nonsense you regurgitating are only found in the fake revisionist history your barely 100 years old republic has cooked up or in the hallucinations of Turkish nationalists. Your bullshits are laughed upon you can't even get them into an easy-to-edit platform like Wikipedia much-less into actual papers and academics.
@@Techtalk2030 “As a Lorestani, our fathers and mothers in the past all spoke Surani language and wore Kurdish clothes, but the society of Iran, because it has Persian language, gradually replaced the words of Lori with Farsi, but still in the areas where they are not educated and They don't mess with technology too much, they still have Lori language close to Kurds, however, there is a group called Bakhtiaris and Southern Lors who call themselves Lors, but the cultural and linguistic difference between the Lors of Lorestan and the south is huge. The language of Lorestan is Kurdish. Yes, but the language of the Bakhtiari and Southern Lors has a Persian structure, the Lori language is being destroyed and has become a dialect, that is why the Lor people are sometimes ignored.” This is not my words these are from a Luri Kurd
And we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are descended from the Iranian Medes and half of The Median - Achaemenid Empire were Iranian Medes and we are also descended from the Iranian Parthians and the Iranian Sasanians and the Iranian Scythians and the Iranian Sarmatians and the Iranian Alans! So we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds in Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Syria and Azerbaijan/Baku and Armenia and Georgia and Russia are Aryans and IRANIANS and we are as ARYAN and IRANIAN as any other Iranian in Iran!
@@pouyabahrami7669 I have myself seen people from the West who would tell me we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are no Iranians and no Aryans but they knew the truth about Kurds that we are an IRANIAN/ARYAN people like any other in Iran. They are very very extreamly afraid that we Kurds and we Yazidi Kurds are coming back to Iran. One of the many Western people I saw who denied we Kurds are Iranians was named Mark Guard and he was a journalist from BBC.
@@delaramsalmassi4063 I agree with you. Just as you have put it "Aryan Kurds..." I would not change a word you've uttered. Cannot be said any better! Thank you.
Clearly in the comments people are talking about how Laks including the Zand are not Kurdish . I am not a Kurd from kermanshah, but I have a friend from kermanshah and he told me that there is a group of Laks that identify as lur and another group that indentify as Kurdish. Hope this is helpful 😊
Okay. So if i understood well, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand is a member of the Zand tribe who are a branch of the Lur tribe who are one of the many tribes that form the Lak people who are ethnicly Kurds. So therefore, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand is a Kurd...
I am myself an Iranian Kurd and I am also a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and we are all Iranians and Aryans! It does not matter what we call ourselves to unite all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples. The Safavids were Kurds.
@@cyrusthegreat1893tell that to the Zand clan themselfs you will be surprised. even in Karim Han zands grave it says kurd Zands are not lur they are laks laks are a dialect of kurmanc laks are just north to lurs but in blood they are kurmanc not lurs
I am a proud kurd from south. Historically there are 5 civilized principals among the kurds ,that you barely find the exact 5 in any nationality : Hospitality,loyalty, courage, honesty and non racist. We are still living by these principals,but hegemonic nations such as the barbaric Turks dont have any principal they have been living and they will live forever inferior to us. ARARAT & TOROS will never run out of heroes. The world thrived on our SUMERIAN civilization
@@soran1461 God bless the Kurd. I am Pashtun and Pashtunwali is same like Ghairat (Honour), Badal (Revenge), Mehmannawazi (hospitality), Pana (Asylum) Tora (Bravery), Hisyana (welfare), Jirga (Attribution), Wafa (loyalty) ❤️☀️💚
But sometimes I wish all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples would all accept to become Kurds so that we did not fight over which Iranian ethnicity we belong to or which Iranian language we speak or which religion we belong to or which ancient Aryan/Iranian tribes we descend from. But over all we are all Iranians and Aryans and it does not matter what we call ourselves in order to unite all the Iranian Peoples.
@@homierobot What do you mean?! Do you mean we should call all 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples to be either Kurds or Persian or Azeri or Ossetian ect…or what do you agree with?!
Nader Shah was a Kurd he was of Kurds of Khorasan , the Kurds of Khorasan still have their unique Afsharid culture , it's a lie big lie mostly funded by turkey to call Nader Shah to be a turk , Nader killed too many Turks and allied with Kurds and also remnants of Kurdish Safavid to fight afghans and ottoman empire ... The father of Nader was a Kurdish Hunter bowman , a professional horse rider
I am myself an Iranian Kurd from Iran’s Kurdistan province in Iran itself and then I am a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd from Iraq’s Kurdistan province in Iraq itself and I say we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds in Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Syria and Azerbaijan and Armenia and Georgia and Russia are all an Aryan/Iranic/Iranian/Indo - Iranian people and we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds belong to the Iranian nation. We Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are as Iranians/Aryans as any other Iranian in Iran!
@@cyrusthegreat1893 Thank you very very much my dear Iranian/Aryan compatriot. Do you think Kurdistan will be a country ever or what and can they divide/split Iran into 12 countries ever?!
@@delaramsalmassi4063 Giving the current situation, I highly doubt it if Kurdistan would ever become a country of its own. It seems to be just impossible since Kurds have to gain their independence from 4 different countries that they all can co-operate with each other to put the Kurds down simultaneously. However, I’m only concerned about my own country’s sovereignty and unity. If Kurds can ever be satisfied of having their own state only in Iraq and Syria, we’re fine with that as long as they don’t mess with our country, Iran.
I am a Patreon of only a few channels and this is one... Your videos are well done and continue to help me fill gaps in my Western education. I am frustrated (on your behalf) by the amount of critical, nitpicking comments I see on your videos. This is challenging history to summarize succinctly. People ought to instead recognize that you are DIY content creator doing your best to cast light on complex and nuanced history (rarely covered elsewhere on YT). Perhaps they don't realize that you are humbly exploring history adjacent to your own ethnicity/heritage? Just be assured the your subscriber base is not discouraged by rogue commenters with more passion than scholarly humility & curiosity. Until next time -- PEACE 🕊️ ✌🏼
im a lur from iran we live in the same region with kurds and many of us have mixed with kurds and created confusing groups like laks and zangeneh which they themselves are not sure what they are it's all good tho , kurds are iranian people like rest of us unlike arabic countries or turkey we dont see them as a separate ethnic group
Thank you for sharing that. That's the impression I get too - that the lines of separation between some ethnic groups in Western Iran become blurry at times.
I don't like your title. It's misleading, Kurdish people are a part of the Iranian federation of people and ethnicities. And they have been so since day one. Kurdish people are categorized as Iranic people. They are the descendants of the Medes who, alongside the Perths, formed the Persian Empire. And if you see Kurds in Turkey or Iraq, it is due to the fact that Iran lost half of its Kurdistan territory to the Ottomans in the Erzerum war. Consequently, the allies conquered the Ottomans and divided the capture lands amongst themselves and further fractured the Kurdish people who had been separated from their mother country
Fantastic! When I was teaching English in Turkey in the mid 2000s I made many ethnic Kurdish friends among my students and faculty colleagues (Kormanci, Zaza and some Sorani). Thiers is a criminally and bafflingly under-told history. More deep dives into their history, culture, and geopolitics please!! Thank you!!
@@salarkurd276 I am myself an Iranian Kurd and a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and I know the Lurs and the Laks are not Kurds! We are all Iranians and Aryans so it does not matter!
@@salarkurd276 Laks are they own.Descendant of Kassites although they ressemble their neighbours but they aren’t mutually intelligible with Kormanji or Sorani for example
No matter what ya call yourselves your cowardly government uses stooges to keep m8ddle east unstable an let crazy leaders subjugate own ppls with security forces Muslim ss sad for such once great ppls
You mean like when the Iran Iraq war happened and they used it as an excuse to murder hundreds of thousands of Kurds and turned my family into refugees? That kind of uniting, is that what your mean? You're living in the matrix unplug and come to the real world @shesam5019
Kurds consists of Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, Gorani, Luri. And Lur consists of four sutibes Feyli/Kelhori, Baxtiari, Laki, mamasani We are all Kurds biji Kurdistan ❤️☀️💚
Karim Khan Zand and Zand tribes were not Kurds. They were Laki/ Lurs. I am a Laki/ Lur and distantly related to the Zand dynasty. So, I can confirm that we’re not Kurds.
@@arman_1024 that’s fact lur is not ethnicity but a linguistic of Kurdish origin , Sorani kurmanji gorani luri laki Zazaki all of them are ethnically Kurdish but they spoken different Kurdish dialects that’s it, you need stop creating nonsense false made up ethnicity that have no bases or histroy, also lurs originated in Zagors mountain a mountain that known that Kurds appeared first on it, we Kurds are original Iranian we are Medes and descendants of Medes people and in 678 BCE and Ayyubids they ( Medes ) also originated in zagros mountain, face reality and don’t run away from it, don’t fall into Persian propagandist tricks
Ji bo çêkirina vê vîdyoyê, mala te ava Hikma can ❤. Ez hêvî dikim ku di pêşerojê de em dikarin ji te bêtir vîdyoyên derbara kurdan temaşe bikin. Serkeftin cano!
When Saladin ruled Jerusalem and Egypt, he brought peace like no other ruler at the time.When the Kurds came to power in Iran, Iran became more peaceful than ever before.I wish that as Kurds, instead of being just and merciful, we would only think of ourselves and be selfish, so that we could be in a better position.
Its not strange for me as Iranian to see these kinda content, ppl from other regions might don't understand the relationship between kurds and Iran but i wonder why we didn't have more Kurdish dynasties or kings
If the civil war did not happen, the Zand dynasty might not collapsed, Iran will be stabilized a lot sooner and a war with Russia over the control of the Caucasus might not even happened. Not to mention that the Kurds will actually have their own country for real. Am I right?
In my opinion, it’s actually declining. This channel is broadcasting false information. Zand tribes were not Kurdish. They were Laki/ Lur closely related to Persian. I’m a Laki/ Lur and I can clearly confirm that. The author of this channel should do a bit more research before posting such a video.
@@HikmaHistoryyeh and don't try like wat turk dose theyfor you are no different then Turks Turks are know as history stealer in very popular way in other case A call it copy Turkish clone troopers
we are lur and we are different with both kurds and fars by haplogroup. we have mostly Rib1a2a-L-23 and you have mostly J AND J2.we are iranian saka people and you are iranian median people.
Great video👌, but you made a video called "When Kurds ruled Iran", but yet the Zand tribe is not Kurdish but Lur. And why not make a video called “When Turks ruled Iran”? because Iran was dominated mainly by Turkic dynasties from the Ghaznavids to the Qajars.
There is something special about Turks in Iran, that they somehow distinguish themselves from turks of Turkey or other turks. Turks in Iran are "persianised" Turks and I can not understand it clearly BTW.
Sözde türk diye bir millet kesinlikle yoktur yüz yıldır uydurulmuş bir isimdir anladın mı kendine sözde türk diyen Topluluk Orta Asya göçebeleri Moğol köleleri idiniz hayatınız boyunca cadirlardan başka hiçbir dikili taşınız olmadı bana tekbir tarihi kaynak göster ki sözde türk ten bahsetsin vallahi billahi tallahi yok
@@Spartan_Disiplin :D Turks in Iran were the main force who defend against Ottoman empire and didn't let it invade. although ottomans could reach Austria, they could never reach Iran as Iranian Turks are strongly against them.
Can someone say if in iran state have more islam religion or zoroastriyan religion. Because some iranian say that in iran are 70 %armenian or zoroastrian religion and 30%islam ....
Kurds are ethnic Iranian. The current speaker of parliament in Iran is Kurd, and so is one of the main heads of the military. We are all one large ethnicity the IRANIANS
No we’re not all one ethnicity. You don’t see Germans claim Dutch as their own ethnicity bc both are Germanic, do you? This whole claiming- game of minorities in Iran by nationalists is just a joke. Kurds, like other minorities in Iran, whether “Iranian” or not, are not of the same ethnicity. Especially not the Kurds, whose language is even further from Persian than Dutch is from German.
@@thefamilycorleone6903 You’re right. We’re not exactly the same, but we’re similar and closely related. Kurd is Kurd and Persian is Persian. Yet, both Kurds and Persians are ethnic Iranian the same way that Dutch and Deutsche are ethnic Germanic.
They were Iranian. Maybe the Iranian Kurds still are but Syrian Iraqi and Turkish Kurds are not Iranian. They look very different. The Kurds of Turkey are heavily mixed with Armenians.
I looked into at what you were talking about, and you were right. “According to their own tradition, the tribe was originally domiciled in its present location land emigrated thence to Persia. It does not admit any Lur connection, and affirms that after the break up of the Zand tribe at Shiraz, the remnant, returned to Salahiyah”. It also mentioned that their tribe chief at the time, Hamid Agha, was very anti-Turk, which is pretty interesting considering the Turkish and Kurdish relations nowadays.
It makes no difference. However, there are old history books from Qajar Dynasty about Zands. They (Zands) called themselves Lur. We don't talk about 10000 years ago, we are talking about 300 years ago. There are books.
the fact that kurds say everything is kurdish, means nothing is kurdish, because people with a culture protect their culture and dont accept anything as theirs
Hikma history, They were Lurs not kurds. please do not enable this form of kurdish historical revisionism, thank you. if you must cover kurdish history, pick a real kurdish dynasty like the Rawandids or Ayyubids (both of whom often tried to pass themselves off as Arabs).
@@MindSeeker2341 I’m a Laki/ Lur and I’m telling you plainly and clearly that we are not Kurds. We are Lur, but our Iranian ethnicity, nationality and identity is above everything else!
no lurs would find that insulting if anything they can share some cultural similarities which makes sense since were all iranian/iranic not sure why theres a recent online push from mostly arab kurds to rewrite history as orangeburger beautifully said good luck though @@MindSeeker2341
The comments about Zands not being Kurds but Lak or Lur is mind blowing. These guys probably belive only Kurmancs or Sorans are Kurds or something. But the thing they have no idea is majority of Kurmancs (Also majority of Kurdish population speaks Kurmanci) are descendants of Kimmerians and Sarmatians. Meanwhile Laks, Lurs, Gorans, Deylems etc. are mainly descendants of Parthians. Even the linguists clasify Kurdish languages as offspring of Parthian dialetcs. At the end do you ignorants are aware of the fact that Persians were calling Parthians 'Kwrt' or 'Gurd' which in time turned into Kurd? So you slackers are technically much more Kurdish than the people identified as Kurdish today. You better shan't deny your origin and not get asimilated.
I can't recall a time that Kurds ruled but Kurds are integral part of the Iranian community that include Turks (who happened to rule the post Arab Iran starting with Saljugh rulers till Gajars in 20th centry), Baluch, Gilaks, Arabs, Bakhtiaris, Gashgai turks, Shahsavan turks, Garapapaq turks, Afshar turks, Bayat Turks, Ayrum, etc etc and many more.
Gutium = Kurdistan Lullubi = Luristan A connection is assumed between Gutaeans, Lulubi (also Lullubu or Lullubäer) and Subartu (also Shubur or Subar), who belonged to the same wave of immigration. Since the late Kura-Araxes culture already interacts with the Kurgan culture, it is possible that the Guti were already speakers of an Indo-Iranian language. However, based on the few names, it is not possible to determine which language family the Guti actually belonged to. Although the Guti language itself is only documented by name, a tablet from Emar, dated to the Middle Babylonian Empire, shows that translators were needed for the languages of the Guti, Subartu, Amorites and Hurrians. Bijî yekîtîya gelê Kurd û hemû gelên Kurdistanê Bijî yekîtîya Kurdistanê û Loristanê ✌️😶☀️🌄🔥🕉🦚✡️✝️☪️🤝💪
Safavids were originally Kurds according to their leniage theough firooz shah zarrin-kolah who was a Kurd. Same can be said aboud Afsharids where amazingly there is a turkified Kurdish tribe called Afshar
Karim Khan Zandiyeh is luri not kurdish, kurds are trying to culture wash you guys into thinking lurs are kurds, you can look at genetic pattern differences, kurds have a closer genetic pattern to persians than they do with lurs, very uneducated
To add to that, Luri language and culture is completely different from Kurdish language(s) and culture. Kurdish is a Northwestern Iranian language, while Luri is a Southwestern Iranian language similar to Persian.
@@BahrainGT Doesn't even matter; Kurds and Lurs are two different peoples with two different histories, languages, and cultures, and they consider themselves as such.
Luri is not ethnicity but a linguistic of Kurdish origin and their ethnicity is Kurdish too there no such thing as luri ethnicity stop making false unknown things , also karim khan zand was laki not even lur and also lakis is Kurdish tribe
You take Wikipedia way to serious when it comes to history. Many of the things you say in the video are either disputed or refuted. Your sources lack credibility.
Kurds are from the Medes. That history should be more researched and talked about. But unfortunately alot of history a being kept from our knowledge and erased from history
true but ever since the Islamic conquest of the Iranian Plato it was mostly ruled by non Iranians like turkic or arab or afgan ..so on it falling to a Iranian tribe hand for some years give iran some breathing room.
@@bennyvanilly by iran do you mean the plato that modern iran is now or do you mean the Iranian sphere of influence and culture? Iranian sphere of influence and culture is way bigger than the Iranian Plato and the pashton are ethnically and culturaly Iranian so it makes sense that afgans ruled iran same as kurds and the parsians and lurs ... so on .
Amazing video When Sunni Muslims were needed to rule and administration of Shia Persia. Do you see, the Game of Thrones and the House of the Dragon here??
Lots of ppl disgruntled about the title. I have no stake in this and will attempt a disinterested defense of it... Iran is a modern geopolity, but also refers to the land where people have spoken Iranian languages, one of which is Kurdish. In this sense, the Kurds (speakers of Kurdish) are one member of the Iranian ethnic group. If, however, we mean modern nation state, not all Kurds are Iranian (living within the borders of Iran), And, of course, many attest the popular geography is wrong and that Kurdestan -- which correlates with the areas of Kurdish speakers -- should be a U.N. recognized state. It's just important to remember that the language being used can vary in function, with the same words alternately referring to ethnicities (biology), language speakers (linguistics), the inhabitants of regions (geography/demography), and so forth (religion and politics segment it further). Whether the Zands were "Kurds" depends on context -- the video attempts to acknowledge this by explaining the relationship of "Lakh", "Lurs" and "Bakhtiari". Let's reconcile our understanding? 🕊️
Lurs/Laks are not in the same ethnicity as the kurds. But they are very similar in the terms of language and culture and the people really get along with each other because they count themselves as brothers to each other.
@@kral16643 You're completely wrong there. Laks Have Different language. Laki is mixed Luri and Kurdi. So if you're a Lur or a Kurd you can somewhat kinda understand what they are saying. Same thing goes for the Kurds. Laks can understand Kurdish and Luri not because their language is mixed with theirs but because they have lived with they lurs and Kurds of decades. It's like Urdu in Pakistan. I can understand some phrases they use in a sentence and figure out what they are saying but they can't do the same for Persian because their language is mixed with Hindi and Arabic. As far as ethnicity goes pure laks are not the same as the Lurs and the Kurds. But I won't give an opinion on this subject because I lack the information needed to tell you about it (you can search it up). But they are in the same family tree.
Azad Khan Afghan was annihilated in the Battle of Kirkbulakh on 28 July 1751 by Heraclius II, the king of Kartli and Kakheti Kingdom (eastern Georgia). The Georgians had only 4,000 warriors whereas Azad Khan Afghan had a 18,000-men strong army. Despite the numerical superiority, the Georgians obtained a crushing victory. "The battle started off with Azad Khan gaining an advantage over the Georgians by pushing back their left flank. King Heraclius ordered his cavalry to dismount from their horses to allow them to maneuver in a narrow corridor and ordered his musketeers to hold their fire and wait for his command. When the Georgians were virtually encircled, Heraclius ordered an all out attack at the center of Azad Khan's army, killing Mohammad Khan instantly. The Georgians were able to exploit the confusion and break through the Khan's encirclement with a fierce counter-attack. King Heraclius ordered his men to run down the retreating army of Azad Khan, which they did for as far as 30 kilometres (19 mi), killing and capturing many on their way."
This will most likely be the least popular video on your channel since absolutely no one likes Kurds in the middle east, and have hence been dismayed to even be called a Kurd, but i commend you for releasing the video nonetheless.
I am curious if you will explore Romans/Byzantines. I know you explore Middle Eastern history, but mostly I wonder about - did Kurds interact with them before (either ancient or medieval, latter also have post-Heraclian Romans and Early Islamic Arabs warring as well)? Mostly since Romans did border at Zagros mountains, both would have interact like either diplomats, raids, or mercenaries.
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@hikma history
Please quote facts, not conjecture
Karim Khan was NOT Kurdish, he was a proud Iranian of Lur origin.
Lorestan as it's known today, was part of the Elamite people which included the Kurds NOT the other way around.
@@marcelooofenwonken4251 u sound mad hes Kurdish. 🤣
Zands were Persian Luris not kurds
@@Residentevil2000 nope
Kurds are natives of Iran so there is nothing strange about them ruling Iran.
kurds are not iran natives but turks are mangols natives make sure of that
@@sizartovi4595 😂😂😂 stop smoking crack
❤☀💚🦅Kurdistan is over 8000 years old.
☀Medes☀Aryans☀Mesopotamians☀Ayyubids☀Safavids☀Zand☀Yezids🦚
The Kurds are one of the oldest cultural peoples on earth and were mentioned in Sumerian texts over 4,000 years ago.
Southern Kurdistan: The city of Erbil is considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its age is estimated at more than 8,000 years. The Citadel of Erbil, which is located in the center of the city, has been continuously inhabited for over 6,000 years and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014.
Eastern Kurdistan: The ancient city of **Hasanlu** in the province of West Azerbaijan is an important archaeological site dating back to the 6th millennium BC.
Northern Kurdistan: **Göbekli Tepe**, one of the oldest known temple complexes in the world, is located near Şanlıurfa and dates back to the 10th millennium BC. AD
Western Kurdistan: The ruins of **Tell Halaf** are an important archaeological site dating back to the 6th millennium BC.
@@DGS-n6g we are somari you idiot
But when was the last time the Kurds had any say on any matter?
Fact: the first shah of Safavid empire was a Kurd his father was the leader of sufi order hence the name “Safavid”
Lol I never heard somthing very funny before, why you do drug so much like that it will harm you😂
@@Sasan0010 they were turkified kurds
@@Sasan0010 search it up, I know y’all don’t have internet
Kurd and Turk (in Iran) are made up terms in the 20th century, in those days they cared about their tribe and family and the empire they were from, not "ethnicity" and language.
It is a fact that the origin of the safavids were Kurds. I think, it was Ismail the first, who did not consider himself as a Kurd. National identity was Not important...their understanding of identity ist different.
Shah ismael were Kurdish origin too.
Don't do drug😂
@@Sasan0010 His ancestry was mixed, from various ethnic groups such as Georgians, Greeks, Kurds and Turkomans.
@@Sasan0010everyone knows this...💀
@@lionkills1 We are talknig about his father branch bro. Which means orinig.
Who was shah ismael?
As a Kurd feel much closer to Iranian than Turks or Arabs and I feel so because the language. I have never learned any Persian but can understand it good but not all.
I am Kurdish. I have been watching ur channel for years, bro u dont know how happy i was when i saw this vedio❤️. Bijî Hikma history(meaning long live Hikma history)😂
Iran is a garden of many different flowers. Our friends from Iraqi and Turkish Kurdestan have sadly been so mistreated and brutalized by Turks and Arabs that they think it must be the same in Iran. So when they see other Iranian ethnicities that look like them, speak a similar language, wear similar clothes, have the same traditions, etc. they think they must be Kurds, instead of realizing that they themselves are part of a bigger whole.
In fact, Iran is the birthplace of Kurds. All Kurdish customs, traditions, myths, calendar and even DNA is shared by other Iranians. The capital of the Medes is deep inside Iran. There has never been a time in history when Kurds were not part of Iran. I hope the day will come when we'll be able to put these petty difference aside and recognize each other as members of the same family.
I am myself an Iranian Kurd and I am also a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and we Kurds and we Yazidi Kurds are IRANIANS and ARYANS and Kurdistan region should come back to Iran!
I'm sunni kurd , All these borders set by the west made this problem and the gov in iran are on the side of the west , they came to Syria just to killll sunni arabs and now we see their lies of fighting isntreal , the dissolving of border is the first move which all of these proxy gov won't do peacefully. The origins aren't important as Islam
No you’re spreading propaganda . The Kurds have always been treated well in Turkey. There is no oppression at all for 20 years. Kurds on the other hand have engaged in massacres against Turks and Turkmen when they had the opportunity. Read the history of Turkmen in Iraq if you want to know what oppression is. Kurds are opportunistic people. You have blood on your hands. Turkey has never engaged in a massacre against Kurds .
It's fact Persians make fun of Kirdish clothing on their natural tv.i worked with few Persians in the west and they always made fun of Kurds and bullied me. I cried when one said, my husband wear lurdish pants when he needs to do dirty gardening jobs. Also I knew a persian woman dat8ng a kurdish man but she always said Kurds are so ugly, kurds are this and that. She would say the worst things about kurds and at the same time she was dating a kirdish guy and lives in Kurdistan region. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
God bless Kurds and Kurdistan ❤
God bless all the humanity not just one group
Kurds are the dearest of the Iranian people ❤️
Why can’t all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples not all become Persians or Kurds or Ossetian ect…so that no country can divide our 600 million Aryan/Iranian Peoples into small small states?!
@@delaramsalmassi4063 it will happen
@@Yazdegerdiranyar Do you mean all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples will become either Persian or Kurds ect… or what do you mean by it will happen?!
@@Yazdegerdiranyar What will happen?
@@Yazdegerdiranyar What will happen?
7:16 A little mistake: Azad Khan Afghan didn't take over "modern day Azerbaijan" as the land he took over was called Azerbaijan at that time as well. Basically, throughout history, Azerbaijan has always been south of Aras river, it was only in 1918 that the lands in south Caucasus were called by that name too when the new republic in Baku appropriated the name.
Azerbaijan was always north of Araz and the South of Aras river.Shirvan and Aran is a geographical toponyms within Azerbaijan state's name.Stop.spreading persian propoganda
@@Azerchayforever221 What you call Persian propaganda is literally everywhere on every source while the nonsense you regurgitating are only found in the fake revisionist history your barely 100 years old republic has cooked up or in the hallucinations of Turkish nationalists.
Your bullshits are laughed upon you can't even get them into an easy-to-edit platform like Wikipedia much-less into actual papers and academics.
Thank you for making these videos
They were Bakhtiari aka luri tribesman where did you get the Kurdish part !?
Luri are Kurds bud
@@FreePalestine07462they arent. Luris are Persian and speak Persian dialect.
@@Techtalk2030 I have nothing to say to a guy who doesn’t know history
@@FreePalestine07462 their language is literally descendant of middle Persian
@@Techtalk2030 “As a Lorestani, our fathers and mothers in the past all spoke Surani language and wore Kurdish clothes, but the society of Iran, because it has Persian language, gradually replaced the words of Lori with Farsi, but still in the areas where they are not educated and They don't mess with technology too much, they still have Lori language close to Kurds, however, there is a group called Bakhtiaris and Southern Lors who call themselves Lors, but the cultural and linguistic difference between the Lors of Lorestan and the south is huge. The language of Lorestan is Kurdish. Yes, but the language of the Bakhtiari and Southern Lors has a Persian structure, the Lori language is being destroyed and has become a dialect, that is why the Lor people are sometimes ignored.” This is not my words these are from a Luri Kurd
And we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are descended from the Iranian Medes and half of The Median - Achaemenid Empire were Iranian Medes and we are also descended from the Iranian Parthians and the Iranian Sasanians and the Iranian Scythians and the Iranian Sarmatians and the Iranian Alans! So we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds in Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Syria and Azerbaijan/Baku and Armenia and Georgia and Russia are Aryans and IRANIANS and we are as ARYAN and IRANIAN as any other Iranian in Iran!
WOW!!!!! So we'll said!
They don't want to mention the truth. They are afraid. People know they are Iranians and they are coming to motherland.
@@pouyabahrami7669 Thank you very much my dear compatriot. Do you mean the Aryan Kurds are coming back to Iran or what do you mean?!
@@pouyabahrami7669 I have myself seen people from the West who would tell me we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are no Iranians and no Aryans but they knew the truth about Kurds that we are an IRANIAN/ARYAN people like any other in Iran. They are very very extreamly afraid that we Kurds and we Yazidi Kurds are coming back to Iran. One of the many Western people I saw who denied we Kurds are Iranians was named Mark Guard and he was a journalist from BBC.
@@delaramsalmassi4063
I agree with you. Just as you have put it "Aryan Kurds..." I would not change a word you've uttered. Cannot be said any better! Thank you.
@@pouyabahrami7669 You are very welcome my dear compatriot.
Clearly in the comments people are talking about how Laks including the Zand are not Kurdish . I am not a Kurd from kermanshah, but I have a friend from kermanshah and he told me that there is a group of Laks that identify as lur and another group that indentify as Kurdish. Hope this is helpful 😊
Zand are Kurds
This is wrong im a Bakhtiari and i know that laks are lor
Lor Kourmanj Zazaki Lak Sorani Gorani hawramani and Bakhtiari are Kurds . Just Iranian/Persian ter*rists divide us.
@mohamda5155 brother, in Iraqi Kurdistan there is are lots of laks and they see themselve as a Kurdish tribe
@@danardarsim914 yes in Iraqi Kurdistan the Shia Kurds are very Kurdish
Kurds are one of the Iranian tribes , no matter if the dynasty is kurdish or Persian or etc , they are all Iranian
Iranian early-modern history is overshadowed by the Ottomans and Mughals, thank you for covering it.
Okay. So if i understood well, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand is a member of the Zand tribe who are a branch of the Lur tribe who are one of the many tribes that form the Lak people who are ethnicly Kurds. So therefore, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand is a Kurd...
Nope! We’re not Kurds. I’m a Laki/ Lur and I’m telling you that we’re not Kurds.
I am myself an Iranian Kurd and I am also a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and we are all Iranians and Aryans! It does not matter what we call ourselves to unite all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples. The Safavids were Kurds.
@@delaramsalmassi4063 Boy, Safavids were Turkic, the rulers were the kizilbash turkmen for a reason
@@adidoki You are most likely either a zionist pan - Turk or a zionist who is stealing Aryan/Iranian/Persian history!
@@cyrusthegreat1893tell that to the Zand clan themselfs you will be surprised. even in Karim Han zands grave it says kurd Zands are not lur they are laks laks are a dialect of kurmanc laks are just north to lurs but in blood they are kurmanc not lurs
I am a proud kurd from south. Historically there are 5 civilized principals among the kurds ,that you barely find the exact 5 in any nationality :
Hospitality,loyalty, courage, honesty and non racist. We are still living by these principals,but hegemonic nations such as the barbaric Turks dont have any principal they have been living and they will live forever inferior to us. ARARAT & TOROS will never run out of heroes.
The world thrived on our SUMERIAN civilization
@@soran1461 God bless the Kurd. I am Pashtun and Pashtunwali is same like Ghairat (Honour), Badal (Revenge), Mehmannawazi (hospitality), Pana (Asylum) Tora (Bravery), Hisyana (welfare), Jirga (Attribution), Wafa (loyalty) ❤️☀️💚
But sometimes I wish all our 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples would all accept to become Kurds so that we did not fight over which Iranian ethnicity we belong to or which Iranian language we speak or which religion we belong to or which ancient Aryan/Iranian tribes we descend from. But over all we are all Iranians and Aryans and it does not matter what we call ourselves in order to unite all the Iranian Peoples.
Troll
@@kral16643 No not really.
You’re right for all the wrong reasons
@@homierobot What do you mean?! Do you mean we should call all 600 million Aryan/Iranic/Iranian Peoples to be either Kurds or Persian or Azeri or Ossetian ect…or what do you agree with?!
@@homierobot Or don’t you not agree with me?! I don’t understand what you agree with?!
Nader Shah was a Kurd he was of Kurds of Khorasan , the Kurds of Khorasan still have their unique Afsharid culture , it's a lie big lie mostly funded by turkey to call Nader Shah to be a turk , Nader killed too many Turks and allied with Kurds and also remnants of Kurdish Safavid to fight afghans and ottoman empire ... The father of Nader was a Kurdish Hunter bowman , a professional horse rider
I am myself an Iranian Kurd from Iran’s Kurdistan province in Iran itself and then I am a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd from Iraq’s Kurdistan province in Iraq itself and I say we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds in Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Syria and Azerbaijan and Armenia and Georgia and Russia are all an Aryan/Iranic/Iranian/Indo - Iranian people and we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds belong to the Iranian nation. We Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are as Iranians/Aryans as any other Iranian in Iran!
Bro you mixed a lot of
@@shabazghazi1491 No not really.
Bravo!!👏🏻 👏🏻
@@cyrusthegreat1893 Thank you very very much my dear Iranian/Aryan compatriot. Do you think Kurdistan will be a country ever or what and can they divide/split Iran into 12 countries ever?!
@@delaramsalmassi4063 Giving the current situation, I highly doubt it if Kurdistan would ever become a country of its own. It seems to be just impossible since Kurds have to gain their independence from 4 different countries that they all can co-operate with each other to put the Kurds down simultaneously. However, I’m only concerned about my own country’s sovereignty and unity. If Kurds can ever be satisfied of having their own state only in Iraq and Syria, we’re fine with that as long as they don’t mess with our country, Iran.
Really enjoyed listening to this piece of history...thanks
Karims life is a true odyssey
Ayyooo! This is a very pleasant surprise!
Thank you for this great upload.
I am a Patreon of only a few channels and this is one... Your videos are well done and continue to help me fill gaps in my Western education.
I am frustrated (on your behalf) by the amount of critical, nitpicking comments I see on your videos. This is challenging history to summarize succinctly. People ought to instead recognize that you are DIY content creator doing your best to cast light on complex and nuanced history (rarely covered elsewhere on YT). Perhaps they don't realize that you are humbly exploring history adjacent to your own ethnicity/heritage?
Just be assured the your subscriber base is not discouraged by rogue commenters with more passion than scholarly humility & curiosity. Until next time -- PEACE 🕊️ ✌🏼
0:10 were you trying to put the flags over top their respective regions? I doubt it, but it just looks off..
im a lur from iran
we live in the same region with kurds and many of us have mixed with kurds and created confusing groups like laks and zangeneh which they themselves are not sure what they are
it's all good tho , kurds are iranian people like rest of us unlike arabic countries or turkey we dont see them as a separate ethnic group
Thank you for sharing that. That's the impression I get too - that the lines of separation between some ethnic groups in Western Iran become blurry at times.
Lurs are kurds history proves this
@@KurdishKing-v2eno 💀
I don't like your title. It's misleading, Kurdish people are a part of the Iranian federation of people and ethnicities. And they have been so since day one. Kurdish people are categorized as Iranic people. They are the descendants of the Medes who, alongside the Perths, formed the Persian Empire. And if you see Kurds in Turkey or Iraq, it is due to the fact that Iran lost half of its Kurdistan territory to the Ottomans in the Erzerum war. Consequently, the allies conquered the Ottomans and divided the capture lands amongst themselves and further fractured the Kurdish people who had been separated from their mother country
Well said indeed! Long live Greater Iran!
Great video!!!!! The most interesting part of Kurdish history by far
Not Kurdish! This guy is giving false information here! Zands were not Kurds. They were and are Laki/ Lur and 100% ethnic Iranian.
@@cyrusthegreat1893they were Kurdistan i
@@cyrusthegreat1893Cope harder Poorsian.
@@cyrusthegreat1893 seethe lmao
I have read safavids were turkified Kurds, is it true.
Turkified Iranian
Safavids are Turkic much more Turkic than Ottomans
Yes Safavids are Kurdish origin from safi al din who was Kurdish poet man but later their family intermarried with Turks
Yes that is correct. They where turkified Kurds
they were mixed.
Good stuff
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Nice work
Fantastic! When I was teaching English in Turkey in the mid 2000s I made many ethnic Kurdish friends among my students and faculty colleagues (Kormanci, Zaza and some Sorani). Thiers is a criminally and bafflingly under-told history. More deep dives into their history, culture, and geopolitics please!! Thank you!!
Kurds are iranic people,we Persians and Kurds established great median and achaemenid empire
Keep dreaming we hate u
The Kurds of Turkey don’t look Iranian at all. They look more like a mix of Arab and Armenian.
@@williamwallace-m4v we dont like iranis at all
@user-tn6pj1ms9Turks themselves look like Greek and Armenian
Zands are Laks/Lurs but it doesn’t matter when we all unite and fight for Iran. United we are stronger🇮🇷🤝
Actually Lak are Kurd not Lor. I posted a comment on why some people are confused
@@salarkurd276 I am myself an Iranian Kurd and a Yazidi/Ezidi Kurd and I know the Lurs and the Laks are not Kurds! We are all Iranians and Aryans so it does not matter!
@@salarkurd276 Laks are they own.Descendant of Kassites although they ressemble their neighbours but they aren’t mutually intelligible with Kormanji or Sorani for example
No matter what ya call yourselves your cowardly government uses stooges to keep m8ddle east unstable an let crazy leaders subjugate own ppls with security forces Muslim ss sad for such once great ppls
You mean like when the Iran Iraq war happened and they used it as an excuse to murder hundreds of thousands of Kurds and turned my family into refugees? That kind of uniting, is that what your mean? You're living in the matrix unplug and come to the real world @shesam5019
Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi, a kurd and beloved to entire ummah❤
Safavids were also of Kurdish origin.
Kurds consists of Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, Gorani, Luri.
And Lur consists of four sutibes Feyli/Kelhori, Baxtiari, Laki, mamasani
We are all Kurds biji Kurdistan
❤️☀️💚
Im not a kurd,We lurs are an ethnicity much to your dismay
As I Lak myself (Beyranvand) I can say that the Laki language is much closer to Kurdish than Luri but culturally Laki are closer to Lurs than Kurds
Karim Khan Zand and Zand tribes were not Kurds. They were Laki/ Lurs. I am a Laki/ Lur and distantly related to the Zand dynasty. So, I can confirm that we’re not Kurds.
My grandfather said that we came from the Zand tribe and I basically speak Kurdish. So I don’t know, maybe your tribe is different and is zand too
Laki is Kurdish tribe and lurs ethnically are Kurd lur is not ethnicity
@@mirvan5478Lurs aren’t ethnic Kurds. That just Kurdish homeschooling nonsense.
@@arman_1024 that’s fact lur is not ethnicity but a linguistic of Kurdish origin , Sorani kurmanji gorani luri laki Zazaki all of them are ethnically Kurdish but they spoken different Kurdish dialects that’s it, you need stop creating nonsense false made up ethnicity that have no bases or histroy, also lurs originated in Zagors mountain a mountain that known that Kurds appeared first on it, we Kurds are original Iranian we are Medes and descendants of Medes people and in 678 BCE and Ayyubids they ( Medes ) also originated in zagros mountain, face reality and don’t run away from it, don’t fall into Persian propagandist tricks
@@zanaahmadi123 persian Zands also exist but they are originally Lak nomads that would move from Malayer to northern Kermanshah.
Google says us Kurds are indo European ? Does that mean we came from Eastern Europe to iran?
Zand dynasty are from Bakhtiyari Lor branch of the Iranian Federation located in Fars region and not the Kurds
Alot of people are making your mistake but actually Lak are Kurd not Lor. I posted a comment on what the source of confusion is
@@salarkurd276 we are lur
@@soheildian371 you are not lak
Ji bo çêkirina vê vîdyoyê, mala te ava Hikma can ❤. Ez hêvî dikim ku di pêşerojê de em dikarin ji te bêtir vîdyoyên derbara kurdan temaşe bikin. Serkeftin cano!
Im Lak and we are Kurdish
Her biji
When Saladin ruled Jerusalem and Egypt, he brought peace like no other ruler at the time.When the Kurds came to power in Iran, Iran became more peaceful than ever before.I wish that as Kurds, instead of being just and merciful, we would only think of ourselves and be selfish, so that we could be in a better position.
Karim khan is Luri not Kurdish
He was laki and laki is Kurdish tribe
@@mirvan5478 And Kurds are Iranian ethnicity.
@@mirvan5478 And Kurds are Iranian ethnic.
@@mirvan5478 And Kurds are ethnic Iranian.
@@mirvan5478shut up illiterate 😂🤣
kurds people belong iran❤️❤️
Its not strange for me as Iranian to see these kinda content, ppl from other regions might don't understand the relationship between kurds and Iran but i wonder why we didn't have more Kurdish dynasties or kings
Medler,buveyhiler de var
Zands according to Karim khan himself was Lor.
If the civil war did not happen, the Zand dynasty might not collapsed, Iran will be stabilized a lot sooner and a war with Russia over the control of the Caucasus might not even happened. Not to mention that the Kurds will actually have their own country for real. Am I right?
This channel only gets better with time 👍
I appreciate that, especially since that's my main goal!
@@HikmaHistory keep making videos, you will achieve your goals
In my opinion, it’s actually declining. This channel is broadcasting false information. Zand tribes were not Kurdish. They were Laki/ Lur closely related to Persian. I’m a Laki/ Lur and I can clearly confirm that. The author of this channel should do a bit more research before posting such a video.
@@HikmaHistorykurds ruled Iran😴
Iran ruled turkey🗿
@@HikmaHistoryyeh and don't try like wat turk dose theyfor you are no different then Turks
Turks are know as history stealer in very popular way in other case
A call it copy Turkish clone troopers
i mean Kurds are a Iranic people why would it be strange for them to rule over Iran? ....
we are lur and we are different with both kurds and fars by haplogroup. we have mostly Rib1a2a-L-23 and you have mostly J AND J2.we are iranian saka people and you are iranian median people.
Nice new map graphics too
Fascinating! I did not know Kurds in Khorasan may originate from Nadar Shah's time
Great video👌, but you made a video called "When Kurds ruled Iran", but yet the Zand tribe is not Kurdish but Lur. And why not make a video called “When Turks ruled Iran”? because Iran was dominated mainly by Turkic dynasties from the Ghaznavids to the Qajars.
There is something special about Turks in Iran, that they somehow distinguish themselves from turks of Turkey or other turks. Turks in Iran are "persianised" Turks and I can not understand it clearly BTW.
Sözde türk diye bir millet kesinlikle yoktur yüz yıldır uydurulmuş bir isimdir anladın mı kendine sözde türk diyen Topluluk Orta Asya göçebeleri Moğol köleleri idiniz hayatınız boyunca cadirlardan başka hiçbir dikili taşınız olmadı bana tekbir tarihi kaynak göster ki sözde türk ten bahsetsin vallahi billahi tallahi yok
@@70shahin Turks in Iran were not ''persianized'' nor they distinguish themselve from other Turks. Where did you learn this crap ?
@@Spartan_Disiplin :D Turks in Iran were the main force who defend against Ottoman empire and didn't let it invade. although ottomans could reach Austria, they could never reach Iran as Iranian Turks are strongly against them.
@@70shahin That still doesnt mean they were persianized or distinguish themselves from other Turks
Can someone say if in iran state have more islam religion or zoroastriyan religion. Because some iranian say that in iran are 70 %armenian or zoroastrian religion and 30%islam ....
lmfao no they are not 70% zoroastrian, though irreligious is probably high.
Nowadays, most Iranians identity themselves as nonbelievers. So, the number of atheism and agnosticism is growing high in Iran.
Nowadays, most Iranians are none religious.
Kurds are ethnic Iranian. The current speaker of parliament in Iran is Kurd, and so is one of the main heads of the military. We are all one large ethnicity the IRANIANS
No we’re not all one ethnicity.
You don’t see Germans claim Dutch as their own ethnicity bc both are Germanic, do you? This whole claiming- game of minorities in Iran by nationalists is just a joke. Kurds, like other minorities in Iran, whether “Iranian” or not, are not of the same ethnicity. Especially not the Kurds, whose language is even further from Persian than Dutch is from German.
@@thefamilycorleone6903 You’re right. We’re not exactly the same, but we’re similar and closely related. Kurd is Kurd and Persian is Persian. Yet, both Kurds and Persians are ethnic Iranian the same way that Dutch and Deutsche are ethnic Germanic.
Lurs are Persian and german itself was originally not one ethnicity. Ethnicity is largely politically backed
They were Iranian. Maybe the Iranian Kurds still are but Syrian Iraqi and Turkish Kurds are not Iranian. They look very different. The Kurds of Turkey are heavily mixed with Armenians.
Zand were Luri Persians not kurds. Laki is also not a kurdish dialect.
Didn’t the Zand tribe confirm they had no connections with the Lurs during the 1900s when Soane visited them?
No, they didn’t.
I looked into at what you were talking about, and you were right. “According to their own tradition, the tribe was originally domiciled in its present location land emigrated thence to Persia. It does not admit any Lur connection, and affirms that after the break up of the Zand tribe at Shiraz, the remnant, returned to Salahiyah”. It also mentioned that their tribe chief at the time, Hamid Agha, was very anti-Turk, which is pretty interesting considering the Turkish and Kurdish relations nowadays.
@@archivedroblox I’m a Laki/ Lur and distantly related to the Zand tribe and I’m telling you that we’re Iranian/ Lurs. At least, we know who we are.
Oh God, the nationalist infestation in this comment section is so over the top.
Literally every Iranian video
Would love to smoke some Shisha with the gentlemen in the thumbnail . They look chill asf .
They look like theyve been smokin shisha all day
It makes no difference. However, there are old history books from Qajar Dynasty about Zands. They (Zands) called themselves Lur. We don't talk about 10000 years ago, we are talking about 300 years ago. There are books.
the fact that kurds say everything is kurdish, means nothing is kurdish, because people with a culture protect their culture and dont accept anything as theirs
Ur irani 😂😂😂😂
@@KurdishKing-v2e no argument....kurds are iranian btw...
@@rezah336 no there not u 🐽
@@KurdishKing-v2e Kurds are Iranian. Kurdistan belongs to Iran.
@@vbx5028 keep dreaming u t errorist
Dude! Zand tribe was not Kurd. It was Lur.
Kurds
@@KurdishKing-v2e اما کورد نیسیم. ایسو رو کپوکت بچئ کو و خره دالکه هیز!
Lur are Kurds like Kurmanj, Sorani, Zazaki, Gorani
A video on Nuristanis please.
I can provide sources for them.
I’d love to do a video on Nuristan. Email me pls.
Hikma history, They were Lurs not kurds. please do not enable this form of kurdish historical revisionism, thank you.
if you must cover kurdish history, pick a real kurdish dynasty like the Rawandids or Ayyubids (both of whom often tried to pass themselves off as Arabs).
well said
they were laks while laks arent "lors", they are kurds
@@MindSeeker2341 I’m a Laki/ Lur and I’m telling you plainly and clearly that we are not Kurds. We are Lur, but our Iranian ethnicity, nationality and identity is above everything else!
@@cyrusthegreat1893 Laks are Kurds. Doesn't matter what you say
no lurs would find that insulting if anything they can share some cultural similarities which makes sense since were all iranian/iranic not sure why theres a recent online push from mostly arab kurds to rewrite history as orangeburger beautifully said good luck though @@MindSeeker2341
The comments about Zands not being Kurds but Lak or Lur is mind blowing. These guys probably belive only Kurmancs or Sorans are Kurds or something. But the thing they have no idea is majority of Kurmancs (Also majority of Kurdish population speaks Kurmanci) are descendants of Kimmerians and Sarmatians. Meanwhile Laks, Lurs, Gorans, Deylems etc. are mainly descendants of Parthians. Even the linguists clasify Kurdish languages as offspring of Parthian dialetcs. At the end do you ignorants are aware of the fact that Persians were calling Parthians 'Kwrt' or 'Gurd' which in time turned into Kurd? So you slackers are technically much more Kurdish than the people identified as Kurdish today. You better shan't deny your origin and not get asimilated.
wtf Karim Khan Zand was a Lur not a Kurd lol.
Ur irani 😂
I am lak myself and we are kurdish not lur and our language is more like kurdish then the lurs
I can't recall a time that Kurds ruled but Kurds are integral part of the Iranian community that include Turks (who happened to rule the post Arab Iran starting with Saljugh rulers till Gajars in 20th centry), Baluch, Gilaks, Arabs, Bakhtiaris, Gashgai turks, Shahsavan turks, Garapapaq turks, Afshar turks, Bayat Turks, Ayrum, etc etc and many more.
Zand dynasty was the first iranian native dynasty of iran since the time of samanids & ghurids
Gutium = Kurdistan
Lullubi = Luristan
A connection is assumed between Gutaeans, Lulubi (also Lullubu or Lullubäer) and Subartu (also Shubur or Subar), who belonged to the same wave of immigration. Since the late Kura-Araxes culture already interacts with the Kurgan culture, it is possible that the Guti were already speakers of an Indo-Iranian language. However, based on the few names, it is not possible to determine which language family the Guti actually belonged to. Although the Guti language itself is only documented by name, a tablet from Emar, dated to the Middle Babylonian Empire, shows that translators were needed for the languages of the Guti, Subartu, Amorites and Hurrians.
Bijî yekîtîya gelê Kurd û hemû gelên Kurdistanê
Bijî yekîtîya Kurdistanê û Loristanê
✌️😶☀️🌄🔥🕉🦚✡️✝️☪️🤝💪
Safavids were originally Kurds according to their leniage theough firooz shah zarrin-kolah who was a Kurd.
Same can be said aboud Afsharids where amazingly there is a turkified Kurdish tribe called Afshar
it was the first time I heard Karim Khan was a Kurd
no, he was Lur
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Karim Khan Zandiyeh is luri not kurdish, kurds are trying to culture wash you guys into thinking lurs are kurds, you can look at genetic pattern differences, kurds have a closer genetic pattern to persians than they do with lurs, very uneducated
That's not how ethnicity works and you clearly didn't watch the video
To add to that, Luri language and culture is completely different from Kurdish language(s) and culture. Kurdish is a Northwestern Iranian language, while Luri is a Southwestern Iranian language similar to Persian.
@@BahrainGT Doesn't even matter; Kurds and Lurs are two different peoples with two different histories, languages, and cultures, and they consider themselves as such.
Even Muslims have caste system
Iranian the former Brahmin now are sudras
Luri is not ethnicity but a linguistic of Kurdish origin and their ethnicity is Kurdish too there no such thing as luri ethnicity stop making false unknown things , also karim khan zand was laki not even lur and also lakis is Kurdish tribe
Why did you designate Azad Khan Afghan as a "warlord"?
You take Wikipedia way to serious when it comes to history. Many of the things you say in the video are either disputed or refuted. Your sources lack credibility.
Great and very informative video
The title should be when iranians ruled iran
ZAND are LURS OMG what kind of joke is this? Are you OK?
cope harder, you can never seperate Lurs and Laks from Kurds. They are Kurds just like Ezidis and Feilis.
@@LeixWUxLongwe Bakhtiaris are not kird
both is kurd so shut you're mouth
@@LeixWUxLong you sure are seperating us by saying lors are not a real ethnicity
Kurds are from the Medes. That history should be more researched and talked about. But unfortunately alot of history a being kept from our knowledge and erased from history
Median empire was kurdish
So was the sassanids empire shabankara was medians-parthian
Marvellous piece of work . I enjoyed as it rhymes as our own (Afghanss ) history.
Zands and Kurds are both iranian but Zand is a Family of Lor people!
Such a false info?!!!
More content on Iranic history, a very rich and fascinating subject.
Iranian *
@@cyrusthegreat1893kurds aren't Iranian buddy
@@KurdishKing-v2eYes we Kurds and we Yazidi/Ezidi Kurds are Iranians and Aryans!
@@KurdishKing-v2ea Kurd says it is
The Kurds did not rule even a single village, they were Zandiye Lor, not Kurds.
Kurds are Iranians! Iranians ruled Iran!
true but ever since the Islamic conquest of the Iranian Plato it was mostly ruled by non Iranians like turkic or arab or afgan ..so on it falling to a Iranian tribe hand for some years give iran some breathing room.
@@samankucher5117 The Afghans were not Afghans when they ruled Iran, because they were also Iranians at the time.
@@bennyvanilly
by iran do you mean the plato that modern iran is now or do you mean the Iranian sphere of influence and culture? Iranian sphere of influence and culture is way bigger than the Iranian Plato and the pashton are ethnically and culturaly Iranian so it makes sense that afgans ruled iran same as kurds and the parsians and lurs ... so on .
@@bennyvanillywhat?
@@rednaksiii what what?
kurds and lurs are 90%same genetic. So you can say kurds are lur or lurs are kurd
Amazing video
When Sunni Muslims were needed to rule and administration of Shia Persia.
Do you see, the Game of Thrones and the House of the Dragon here??
Lots of ppl disgruntled about the title. I have no stake in this and will attempt a disinterested defense of it...
Iran is a modern geopolity, but also refers to the land where people have spoken Iranian languages, one of which is Kurdish. In this sense, the Kurds (speakers of Kurdish) are one member of the Iranian ethnic group.
If, however, we mean modern nation state, not all Kurds are Iranian (living within the borders of Iran), And, of course, many attest the popular geography is wrong and that Kurdestan -- which correlates with the areas of Kurdish speakers -- should be a U.N. recognized state.
It's just important to remember that the language being used can vary in function, with the same words alternately referring to ethnicities (biology), language speakers (linguistics), the inhabitants of regions (geography/demography), and so forth (religion and politics segment it further).
Whether the Zands were "Kurds" depends on context -- the video attempts to acknowledge this by explaining the relationship of "Lakh", "Lurs" and "Bakhtiari".
Let's reconcile our understanding? 🕊️
Safavidian (Safawi) were Kurdish too!
الصفوية (صفويان)
Change this title these are LUR tribes
حرف نزن من خودم خراسانی هستم کورد کرمانج هستم
That intro was misleading, ignoring the Lurs/Laks conflation with Kurds, it assumes the Ayubids did not exist as Kurdish rulers in Islamic history!
Ayyubids were Arab
I loved this keep more of these coming
Lurs/Laks are not in the same ethnicity as the kurds.
But they are very similar in the terms of language and culture and the people really get along with each other because they count themselves as brothers to each other.
You're right about Lurs but Laks can be considered as Kurds.
@@kral16643 You're completely wrong there.
Laks Have Different language. Laki is mixed Luri and Kurdi.
So if you're a Lur or a Kurd you can somewhat kinda understand what they are saying.
Same thing goes for the Kurds.
Laks can understand Kurdish and Luri not because their language is mixed with theirs but because they have lived with they lurs and Kurds of decades.
It's like Urdu in Pakistan. I can understand some phrases they use in a sentence and figure out what they are saying but they can't do the same for Persian because their language is mixed with Hindi and Arabic.
As far as ethnicity goes pure laks are not the same as the Lurs and the Kurds. But I won't give an opinion on this subject because I lack the information needed to tell you about it (you can search it up). But they are in the same family tree.
Lirs are more like Persians than kirds
Luri are Kurd what sources do you have backing lurs are not Kurd?
Wrong history not Kurdish
someone is envious
So Kurds ruled another country but not their own? kek
😂👍🏻
we are lur and from lorestan.
Azad Khan Afghan was annihilated in the Battle of Kirkbulakh on 28 July 1751 by Heraclius II, the king of Kartli and Kakheti Kingdom (eastern Georgia). The Georgians had only 4,000 warriors whereas Azad Khan Afghan had a 18,000-men strong army. Despite the numerical superiority, the Georgians obtained a crushing victory.
"The battle started off with Azad Khan gaining an advantage over the Georgians by pushing back their left flank. King Heraclius ordered his cavalry to dismount from their horses to allow them to maneuver in a narrow corridor and ordered his musketeers to hold their fire and wait for his command. When the Georgians were virtually encircled, Heraclius ordered an all out attack at the center of Azad Khan's army, killing Mohammad Khan instantly. The Georgians were able to exploit the confusion and break through the Khan's encirclement with a fierce counter-attack. King Heraclius ordered his men to run down the retreating army of Azad Khan, which they did for as far as 30 kilometres (19 mi), killing and capturing many on their way."
This will most likely be the least popular video on your channel since absolutely no one likes Kurds in the middle east, and have hence been dismayed to even be called a Kurd, but i commend you for releasing the video nonetheless.
I am curious if you will explore Romans/Byzantines.
I know you explore Middle Eastern history, but mostly I wonder about
- did Kurds interact with them before (either ancient or medieval, latter also have post-Heraclian Romans and Early Islamic Arabs warring as well)? Mostly since Romans did border at Zagros mountains, both would have interact like either diplomats, raids, or mercenaries.
Espacially Northern Kurds have a significant Greek/Roman admixture. But mainly Kurds are an admixture of Scythians and Medes of Iranic origin.