
This is a video I made out of quotes by scholars and historians on Medo-Kurdish relations. Here they are: 1. ''The great mass of the Kurds are descended from the Medes, though some are successors of Mantieni, Kadusii, and Kassæi or Saqæ.'' - Konrad Mannert (1756 -- 1834), Prussian historian and geographer 2. ''The western part of the mountain region of Media was anciently called the Za- gros, and is part of the modern Kurdistan and Luristan.'' - Israel Smith Clare (1847-1924) 3. ''Kurds along with other Aryan immigrants were able to establish their own empire -- the Median Empire -- which ruled vast areas of the Middle East between 612 and 519 BC. Since then the Kurds and Kurdistan remained relatively independent of external rule until the Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD.'' - Lokman I. Meho 4. ''The empire of the Medes, one of the reputed ancestors of the Kurdish people, was the only great national state that may be said to have been established by the Kurds.'' - Wadie Jwaideh 5. ''The Medes were the ancestors of Xenophon's Carduchi and the modern Kurds.'' - M. Chahin 6. ''Language like the language of the Medes, Kurdish is of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages...'' - William Eagleton 7. ''The majority of those who now speak Kurdish most likely were formerly speakers of Median dialects.'' - Gernot Windfuhr
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