Place:Êzîdxan
Êzîdxan or Ezidkhan (Land of the Yazidis[1]) is what Yazidis call the Mesopotamian region or Kurdistan that is now part of modern-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey.[2] The term means a sacred place or homeland.[2][3] In addition, there are Yazidi autonomy efforts in northern Iraq to establish their own autonomy called Êzîdxan.[4][5]
Etymology
Êzîdxan (other spellings: Ezidkhan, Ezdikhan, Ezidchan, Ezidikhan, Ezidichan) consists of the two words "Êzîdî" (own designation of the Yazidis) and Xan or Khan (meaning: house) and it literally means the "House of the Yazidis".[3] It is also translated as the "Land of the Yazidis".[1] Furthermore, the term "Êzîdxan" refers to the community of Yazidis.[6][7]
Settlement areas
The term "Êzîdxan" is also the designation of traditional and historical settlement areas of the Yazidis. The original main settlement areas of the Yazidis are in northern Mesopotamia, in today's northern Iraq, in northern Syria and in south-eastern Turkey.
See also
- Êzîdxan Protection Force
- Yazidi nationalism
- List of Yazidi settlements
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turgut, Lokman (2010) (in de). Mündliche Literatur der Kurden in den Regionen Botan und Hekarî. Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. pp. 161. ISBN 978-3-8325-2727-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=BZ3HUILlfuQC&q=%C3%8Az%C3%AEdxan&pg=PA161.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Usman, Dr Shakir Muhammad (2021-01-01). "A Tale of a Lost, Found, and Misunderstood Legacy in the Light of Mimetic Theory". Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, Michigan State University Press: 259. https://www.academia.edu/50172491.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Şingal und der IS: Der jihadistische Genozid an den Êzîdî und die Folgen. in LeEZA (Liga für emanzipatorische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit), (in German) p. 6, (1. August 2016)
- ↑ Schliephack, Caspar (2015-03-14). "Êzîdxan: Ein Projekt von Eziden und PKK - und die Rolle Deutschlands" (in de-DE). https://dtj-online.de/eziden-pkk-kurden-ezidxan-irak/.
- ↑ Ibrahim, Ferhad. "Droht eine Zerstörung der ethnischen und religiösen Vielfalt im Irak? | APuZ" (in de). https://m.bpb.de/apuz/33465/droht-eine-zerstoerung-der-ethnischen-und-religioesen-vielfalt-im-irak.
- ↑ Rodziewicz, Andrzej; Jagiellonian University, Krakow (2018-01-01). "Milete min Êzîd. The Uniqueness of the Yezidi Concept of the Nation". Securitologia 1 (27): 73. ISSN 1898-4509. https://www.academia.edu/38332894.
- ↑ Arakelova, Victoria. "Ethno-Religious Communities Identity markers" (in en). Academia.edu: 3. https://www.academia.edu/3764877.
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