Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

through the Ararat (Aghri) Mountains, as far as the
imagining line from Trebizon on the Black Sea shores
towards Adana and Alexandrite on the Mediterranean
Sea, represent the northern and western borders of
Kurdistan. As for the Southern borderline, it extends from
Alexandrite in wide shape angle, one of its sides gone
for Alexandrite in a straight line toward Mosul (2) and
the other side of the angle extending from Mosul to the
Persian Gulf passing by Mendeli, Badra, Zerbatiah and
Kut in the South East of Baghdad as mentioned by Al-
Mustawfi Al-Qazwini and Matthew the Orfali between
the 11th and the 12th centuries.
Kurdistan is characterised by its beautiful mountains
and fertile land and abundance of water springs and its
water supplies and the Tigris and Euphrates, the most
important rivers of the Middle East start from Kurdistan
in addition to a host of large natural lakes such as Lakes
Van and Urmia and those present in the mountain heights
and tops. The agricultural wealth is diverse including
fruit, vegetables, seeds, cotton and tobacco.
Forests cover around 6% of the territory from the North,
32% from the East, 8% from the South and 5% from the
West of Kurdistan. This relatively small proportion of
forest is a result of the planning aimed at the annihilation
of it by the colonising governments since it represents
natural Kurdish wealth and protects the environment
becoming an important helping factor in the struggle for
the liberation of Kurdistan.
Some of the important minerals in Kurdistan are
uranium, iron, copper, sulphur, silver, gold, mercury,
marble, coal in addition to seas of crude oil. Colonising
governments boast of their production of minerals which
in actual fact are Kurdistan’s raw material and products.
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