Table of Contents
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KURDISH TRIBES
Pierre Oberling
Kurdish tribes are found throughout Persia, eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq, but very few comprehensive lists of them have been published.
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KURDISH WRITTEN LITERATURE
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Written, “elevated” poetry traditionally played a less prominent role in Kurdish society than folk poetry (q.v.) did. The number of written literary works in Kurdish is far smaller than in the surrounding cultures.
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KURDOEV, QENĀTĒ
Joyce Blau
(1909-1985), Kurdish philologist and university professor.
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KURGAN TEPE
Habib Borjian
(Qūrḡonteppa in Tajik orthography; Kurgan-Tyube in Russian), provincial capital and former province of Tajikistan.
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KURUNI
Pierre Oberling
a Kurdish tribe of Kurdistan and Fārs. Most of the tribe was transplanted from Kurdistan to Fārs by Karim Khan Zand during the 1760s.
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KUŠ-NĀMA
Jalal Matini
part of a mythical history of Iran written between 1108 and 1111, dealing with the eventful life of Kuš the Tusked.
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KUSA
Anna Krasnowolska
a carnival character known to the medieval and modern folklore of central and western Persia.
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KUSHAN DYNASTY
Multiple Authors
the line of rulers in Bactria, Central Asia and northern India from the first century CE.
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KUSHAN DYNASTY i. Dynastic History
A. D. H. Bivar
During the first to mid-third centuries CE, the empire of the Kushans (Mid. Pers. Kušān-šahr) represented a major world power in Central Asia and northern India.
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KUSHAN DYNASTY ii. Inscriptions of the Kushans
N. Sims-Williams and H. Falk
The inscriptions issued by the Kushan rulers or in areas under their rule include texts in Bactrian, written in Greek script, and in Prakrit written in Brāhmī or Kharoṣṭhī script. Naturally enough, the Bactrian inscriptions are mostly found in Bactria and the Indian inscriptions in the Kushan territories to the south and east of the Hindu Kush.