Kurdish studies
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Kurdology or Kurdish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Kurds and consists of several disciplines such as culture, history and linguistics. Kurdish studies traces its institutional history to 1916, when in St. Petersburg in the late Russian Empire, during World War I, Kurdology was first taught as a university course by Joseph Orbeli.
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- Kurdology by region
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- Germany
- Russia
- Turkey
- Notable academics
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Kurdology or Kurdish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Kurds and consists of several disciplines such as culture, history and linguistics. Kurdish studies traces its institutional history to 1916, when in St. Petersburg in the late Russian Empire, during World War I, Kurdology was first taught as a university course by Joseph Orbeli.
==Term== The modern historian Sacha Alsancakli explains that the term Kurdology started gaining acceptance after 1934, when the first pan-Soviet Kurdological congress was held in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union.
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