| Mark Marciak Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West, 2017 | 1-58, 2009: "The ancient history of the Kurds, as in case of many other Iranian ethnic groups Baluchis, etc |
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| Journal of the American Oriental Society | 68—69 are more likely candidates |
2500-1500 BC : a historical and cultural synthesis.
6| Encyclopedia of Islam "We thus find that about the period of the Arab conquest a single ethnic term Kurd plur | |
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| Morony, "Iraq After the Muslim Conquest", Gorgias Press LLC, 2005 | 41: "In these last areas, the historic road from Baghdad to Hamadan and beyond divides the Kurds from their Iranian cousins, the Lurs |
Several dynasties, such as the Marwanids of Diyarbakir, the Ayyubids, the Shaddadis and possibly the Safawids, as well as prominent personalities, were of Kurdish origin.
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