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Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan[1] (Kurdish: باشووری کوردستان, romanized: Başûrê Kurdistanê)[2][3][4] refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of "Kurdistan" in West Asia, which also includes parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Western Kurdistan), and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan).[5][6] Much of the geographical and cultural region of Iraqi Kurdistan is part of the Kurdistan Region (KRI), an autonomous region recognized by the Constitution of Iraq.[7] As with the rest of Kurdistan, and unlike most of the rest of Iraq, the region is inland and mountainous.[8]
^Ali, Othman (October 1997). "Southern Kurdistan during the last phase of Ottoman control: 1839–1914". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 17 (2): 283–291. doi:10.1080/13602009708716377.
^"مێژوو "وارماوا" له كوردستان" (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
^Yassin, Borhan (2008). عێراقی دوای سەددام و چارەنووسی باشووری کوردستان. Lund University (Catalog record) (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
^"Ala û sirûda netewiya Kurdistanê" (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
^Bengio, Ofra (2014). Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland. University of Texas Press. p. 2. Hence the terms: rojhalat (east, Iran), bashur (south, Iraq), bakur (north, Turkey), and rojava (west, Syria).
^Khalil, Fadel (1992). Kurden heute (in German). Europaverlag. pp. 5, 18–19. ISBN 3-203-51097-9. Archived from the original on 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2016-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^Jason Dittmer, Jo Sharp. Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader.
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