The capitals of the nations!

Cyrus, all of this mess, is manmade, in one way or another. Certainly history tells us that mass deportations were part and parcel of most all ancient kingdoms! Resettelements were used by all of the nations within the Fertile Crescent, an Egypt, Syria, Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Persia, etc.! As well we are told of the mass movement of vast numbers of people were were merely fleeing (flying) from other people who made life impossible for them in their original homelands,if there were in an real since of the word "original?" In the best of cases these people were eventually assimilated into the then indigenous folk / volk! But, in most cases, it seems, these movements have only led to hundreds of years of antagonism, hate and warfare amongst the new commers and the old timers!
The Balkins are a prime example of the last as is Iraq, and other semi-created or created boundaries!

It is sad but true.

Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 18-Nov-2009 at 11:36

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri Azadi, I don't think that Kurds consider Assyria as their original homeland, Kurds got an independent country in the 20th century and that was the Republic of Kurdistan (Mahabad): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Mahabad and as you read the capital was the city of Mahabad in northwestern Iran, this is the centre of an ancient Kurdish civilization and culture which has been mentioned by ancient historians and geographers like Ptolemy.

Even if all four parts of Kurdistan don't get together (but get an autonomous independence), Mahabad will in no way be the capital. In South, Hewler will continue to dominate - mainly because it's in the middle, and no other Kurd from this region will dare put (let's say) Sulemanîa, Kerkûk, Mûsil as capitals. In West the capital would be either Qamişli or Hasakah. In North the capital will be Amed, the biggest and most populated Kurdish city (If a bigger Kurdistan ever get founded, Amed will easily be the capital - this you can confirm with any Kurd who is interested in the Kurdish issue). In East the capital will be Kermaşan, the most populated Kurdish city in the region.

Maybe the problem is that Kurdish people don't know much about their history and origin, if they really believe to be descendants of the Medes then the land of ancient Assyria which was conquered by them at the end of the 7th century BC, can't be their original land, of course it is very possible that a large number of Medes migrated to Arbela and other Assyrian cities after their conquest but as I replied to Opuslola, the difference between original homeland and adopted homeland is similar to that between mother and stepmother.