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

conquered Babylon and established a strong government
known as Kardoniash in the Sumerian and Accadian lands.
They prospered during six centuries 1746 -1171BC.
4. Khaldian-Urartians: The Khaldian reign extended
from the Togja lake and the Alexandra pole in the Caucasus
and the Euphrates in the West to Lake Urmia in the East
and until Rawandous and the northern part of Syria to
the South. The capital of Khaldeans was the city of Tushpa
(present day Van). It was built by the Khaldean King
Sardoris the First. In 840 BC. Towards the end of the
seventh century BC the Khaldean government was
incorporated with the Median Kurdish Empire.
5. SUBARIANs : The first time we come across the
name of this nation is on an antique plate that can be
traced back to the thirtieth century BC. The word Subarian
does not refer to a nation in the historical sense. Rather,
it was a name coined by the Sumerians to designate a
geographic (topography) referring by it to the regions
inhabited by the Kurds today. The word was SU-BIR
and in time it was converted to SUBAR-TU by the
Accadians, meaning heights, the Highlands and later on,
the North. This term SUBARIAN was also used in
reference to a geographic surface that extended from the
area North West to the Ilam countries to the Amanous
Mountains on the Mediterranean Sea. Toward the end of
the Assyrian reign, the name Subarian disappeared and
instead of it the name of another nation came into use,
known as the Nairi. It is certain that the Nairi people are
an important part of the different components of the
Subarian people. The vestiges and monuments of the
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