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The fire ultimately burned a total area of 153,336 acres (62,050 ha; 239.6 sq mi; 620.5 km 2 ); it was not contained until November 25, 2018, at a total fire suppression cost of more than $150 million. [9] The Camp Fire caused 85 civilian fatalities, and injured 12 civilians and five firefighters.
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The regular season began on October 17, 2017, earlier than previous seasons to reduce the number of "back-to-back" games teams were scheduled to play, with the 2017 Eastern Conference champion (and Finals runner–up) Cleveland Cavaliers hosting a game against the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
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Kurdistan means "Land of the Kurds" and was first attested in 11th-century Seljuk chronicles.The exact origins of the name Kurd are unclear. The suffix -stan (Persian: ـستان, translit. stân) is Persianfor land. "Kurdistan" was also formerly spelled Curdistan. One of the ancient names of Kurdistan is Corduene. The 19th-century Kurdistan Eyalet was t...
Ancient history
Various groups, among them the Guti, Hurrians, Mannai (Mannaeans), and Armenians, lived in this region in antiquity. The original Mannaean homeland was situated east and south of the Lake Urmia, roughly centered around modern-day Mahabad. The region came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius I. The Kingdom of Corduene, which emerged from the declining Seleucid Empire, was located to the south and south-east of Lake Van between Persia and Mesopotamia and ruled north...
Post-classical history
In the tenth and eleventh centuries, several Kurdish principalities emerged in the region: in the north the Shaddadids (951–1174) (in east Transcaucasia between the Kur and Araxes rivers) and the Rawadids (955–1221) (centered on Tabriz and which controlled all of Azerbaijan), in the east the Hasanwayhids (959–1015) (in Zagros between Shahrizor and Khuzistan) and the Annazids (990–1116) (centered in Hulwan) and in the west the Marwanids (990–1096) to the south of Diyarbakır and north of Jazira...
Modern history
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies contrived to split Kurdistan (as detailed in the ultimately unratified Treaty of Sèvres) among several countries, including Kurdistan, Armenia and others. However, the reconquest of these areas by the forces of Kemal Atatürk (and other pressing issues) caused the Allies to accept the renegotiated Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and the borders of the modern Republic of Turkey, leaving the Kurds without a self-ruled region. Other Kurdish areas wer...
According to 2016 estimate Kurdish Institute of Paris, total population of Kurdistan is around 34.5 million, and Kurds making 86% of population of Northern Kurdistan. There are Arab, Turkish, Assyrian (Syriac), Armenian and Azerbaijani minorities in Northern Kurdistan. In Southern Kurdistan there are Christian (Assyrian and Armenian) and Turkish (T...
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Kurdistan covers about 190,000 km² (or 73,000 square miles), and its chief towns are Diyarbakır (Amed), Bitlis (Bedlîs) and Van (Wan) in Turkey, Erbil (Hewlêr) and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, and Kermanshah (Kirmanşan), Sanandaj (Sine), Ilam and Mahabad (Mehabad) in Iran. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, ...
A typical Kurdish village in Hawraman, KurdistanCanyon in Rawanduzin northern Iraqi KurdistanZê river in Zebari region, Iraqi Kurdistan.The city of Piranshahr, center of Mokrian district, northwestern IranMitchell, Colin Paul (2010). "Kurdistan". In Bjork, Robert E. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199574834.Triana, María (2017). Managing Diversity in Organizations: A Global Perspective. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-42368-3.Beşikçi, İsmail (2015). International Colony Kurdistan. London: Gomidas Institute. ISBN 978-1-909382-20-6.King, Diane E. Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq(Rutgers University Press; 2014) 267 pages; Scholarly study of traditional social networks, such as patron-client r...24. 5 2018 –Water Crisis in Southern Africa –Conclusions. The temporal analyses (time series 1981-2017) presented in this technical report show that a deficit of 50-70% of monthly precipitation during the rainy season can systematically occurs every 5 years in December and February.
2017–18: Duration: 5 October 2017 – 24 May 2018: Number of games: 98 (Regular season) 23 (Playoffs) Number of teams: 8: TV partner(s) TV6, Delfi TV: Regular season; Top seed: Kalev/Cramo: Finals; Champions: Kalev/Cramo (10th title) Runners-up: University of Tartu: Third place: AVIS UTILITAS Rapla: Fourth place: Port of Pärnu: Finals MVP ...
