Modan (tribe)
Modan () is a Kurds, Kurdish Kurdish tribes, tribe mainly residing around Haymana, Ankara, Haymana, Ankara Province in Turkey. The first Kurdish village and considerable Kurdish presence appeared in the region in 15th and 18th centuries, respectively. Tribal members are also found in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. Geography It is believed that the tribe migrated westward from Mutki region near Bitlis. Today, they live in the villages of Katrancı, Haymana, Katrancı, Saatli, Haymana, Saatli, Karasüleymanlı, Haymana, Karasüleymanlı, Çeltikli, Haymana, Çeltikli and Toyçayırı, Haymana, Toyçayırı in the Haymana district of Ankara Province. See also * Şêxbizin (tribe) * Reşwan (tribe) * Kord Kola * Kord Kheyl, Juybar References

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Kurds
ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages. After World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. However, that promise was broken three years later, when the Treaty of Lausanne set the boundaries of modern Turkey and made no s ...
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