Yazidis or Yezidis (/ j ə ˈ z iː d iː z / (); Kurdish: ئێزیدی, romanized: Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok.

Historicamente os iazidis viviam principalmente em áreas que são atualmente situadas no Iraque, Síria e Turquia, havendo também vários grupos significativos na Arménia e na Geórgia.Entretanto, os eventos históricos ocorridos a partir do início do século XX resultaram em movimentações demográficas consideráveis e emigração em massa. [8]

Kurdish literature (Kurdish: وێژەی کوردی, romanized: Wêjeya kurdî, Kurdish: ئەدەبی کوردی) is literature written in the Kurdish languages.Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the four main languages: Zaza, Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri (1009-1079) is one of the first well-known poets who wrote in Kurdish. ...

Yarsanism, Ahl-e Haqq or Kaka'i (Kurdish: یارسان, romanized: Yarsan or Kurdish: ئەهل-ە هەق, romanized: Ehl-e heq; Persian: اهل حق, Arabic: كاكائي), is a syncretic religion founded by Sultan Sahak in the late 14th century in western Iran. The total number of followers of Yarsanism is estimated to be over half a million to one million in Iran.

Jezidi's (ook ezidi's, jezidi, jazda of jazidi genoemd, in het Koerdisch: Êzidîtî of Êzidî) zijn een etnische groep in Koerdistan.De jezidi's noemen zichzelf ezidi (het Koerdische Ezda of Azda is de naam voor God; 'ezidi' staat dan voor 'volk van God'). Schattingen van het aantal jezidi's lopen sterk uiteen, van 300.000 wereldwijd tot 700.000 alleen al in noord-Irak.

Dans la tradition judaïque, le peuple hébreu est libéré de l'esclavage qu'il subit en Égypte par Moïse et s'installe en Canaan ; le récit en est fait dans l'Exode, et pourrait situer l'histoire au XV e siècle av. J.-C..Les Juifs fondent deux royaumes, celui d'Israël et celui de Juda ; leur religion s'étend sur les rivages de la Méditerranée et vers Babylone et se mêle parfois avec ...

The Sinjar Resistance Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Berxwedana Şengalê; YBŞ) is a Yazidi militia formed in Iraq in 2007 to protect Yazidis in Iraq in the wake of attacks by Sunni Islamist insurgents. It is the second largest Yazidi militia, after the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ). However, it is much more active than the HPÊ in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and …

Yazidisme eller Sharfadin er en religion med gamle indo-europæiske rødder. Medlemmerne er primært kurdisktalende og bor i Mosul-området i det nordlige Irak.Andre samfund i Transkaukasien, Armenien, Tyrkiet og Syrien har været i tilbagegang siden 1990'erne. Medlemmerne udvandrer til Europa, især til Tyskland.En stor Yazidi-klan/stamme kaldes Dasni.

Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār; Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq.It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains.Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi.

Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples. The term Indigenous was first, in its modern context, used by Europeans, who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of …