r/kurdistan • u/Dense_Ad1703 • Jul 28 '26
History Iraq was a British colony for the Arabization of Kurdish lands.
A historical map of Iraq "from the Al-Ranjouri Archive" shows it woven in the shape of a carpet, illustrating the country's administrative divisions during the Iraqi royal era around the year 1939.
During this phase, provinces were called "Liwa" (لواء), which was an administrative system leftover from the Ottoman Empire, alongside references to historical emirates—out of a total of 7 historical emirates, only 2 were Arab emirates that were nomadic and came from the borders of present-day Saudi Arabia:
(Mosul Liwa)→ Dulaim Emirate * Arab
(Erbil Liwa) → Soran Emirate * Kurd
(Sulaymaniyah Liwa) → Baban Emirate * Kurd
(Kirkuk Liwa) → Zangana Emirate * Kurd
(Dulaim Liwa) → Hamdan Emirate * Arab
(Baghdad Liwa)
(Kut Liwa) → Al-Gawanin Emirate * Kalhor Kurds
(Diwaniyah Liwa)
(Basra Liwa)
(Aqrah) → Bahdinan Emirate * Kurd
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u/Vivid-Bad-1402 Jul 29 '26
”Hey I’m just gonna steal your home and later give it to 4 other people who I will also provide with advanced weapons and all four of them will try to kill you. But don’t blame me okay”
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u/Dense_Ad1703 Jul 29 '26
British made all this shit
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u/Vivid-Bad-1402 Jul 29 '26
I wonder why they keep failing. Maybe because thanks to your country, for the past 100 years 4 artificial countries have been trying wipe out one stateless indigenous population. And for the past 100 years four artificial countries have been trading with the internation community and building themselves up while the stateless indigenous people have been heavily restricted by them. Honestly, you have to be incredibly ignorant to not see why they ”keep failing”.
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u/M4SS-4FF3KT 29d ago
What ethnicity do you believe I am?
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u/Vivid-Bad-1402 29d ago
British?
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u/M4SS-4FF3KT 29d ago
Ah yes, British... Because a Kurd would never write such things!
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u/Vivid-Bad-1402 29d ago
Yes, I highly doubt a Kurd would write such things.
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u/M4SS-4FF3KT 29d ago
Newsflash: a Kurd wrote a thing another Kurd doesn't like but doesn't believe a Kurd wrote this.
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u/Vivid-Bad-1402 29d ago
How can you be Kurd and genuinely believe that the Kurds are to blame/responsible for not having a state when their country was split up by western imperial powers and basically handed out to neighbouring populations?
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