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The Kurdish Settlement in Assyria

Hirmis Aboona

(1) Salah al Din al Ayubi: 1

This is an excerpt from my book The History of the Kurdish Settlement in Assyria.

This article will attempt to disprove claims of a substantial presence of the Kurdish people in Mesopotamia prior to the Battle of Chaldiran of 1514 between the Ottoman Sultan Salem I and Ismael Shah of Persia.

In this paper I will not follow the sequential order of the Kurdish settlement in Assyria, from its very beginning to the present-day.

Rather, I will concentrate on claims of the existence of the Kurds in Mesopotamia from early times and providing Tikrit, the birthplace of the famous Salah in the 12th century, as authentic proof of such claims.

(1) – 1: Salah al Din al Ayubi

No doubt that Salah al Din became a legend in the East and West for his role in cleaning the western parts of the Fertile Crescent from the dirt of the Crusaders.

His capture of Jerusalem, and the Muslim triumph, which follow