A. Pizhder district.—The Sekkir and Nur-ud Dini have 100 villages and 1000 fighting men ; Shinki, 200 families ; Ghellali, 150 families ; Siwell, an agricultural tribe.
B. Nomade.-- Jaf and its tributaries could furnish loou infantry d 300 horses. The Jaf protect all the tribes of Luristan and Persian Kurdistan, increasing their strength to several thousand:;. There are fragments of about seven Aran tributary tribes, comprising nearly 3000 fami has, formerly part of tho Balbassi, Lak, and Feili. isolongst these are the Zend, to which belonged Karim Khau, king of Persia, whom the Kajar eollerthrow.
In N. Kurdistan, the four great tribes are the *Milian, Ilakari, and Rowandez, the Ilakari having 27,840 souls.
The Kurd are the Carduchai of the Greeks. *hey are partly manacle, partly settled. They are haave, hospitable, robust, hardy, and temperate ; are long-lived, but uncivilised, averse to settled habits, delighting in war and rapine, and hardly asgarding murder and parricide as crimes. They are seldom taught to read or write, but are care fatly taught to manage horses and arms. The li of Ardelan and wali of Sulimania are their .atest chiefs, he of Ardelan claiming to be the eal descendant of Salah-ud-Din ; is tributary Persia. The features of the Kurd are sharp ; e oval, nose prominent, mouth and chin eding ; brow ample, eyes deep set, dark ; th well formed, and teeth fine. Kurd or d seems to mean speech. The people call dr country Kartuaaj. They are invariably ousted ; are armed with bows and javelins. heir tents are black.
The Kurd in Asia Minor are thievish, preda ry, revengeful, untruthful, and irreligious. The orking and industrious portion of the population N. Kurdistan are Armenian and Nestorian hristians, all serfs, known as Zar Kharidi, gold auchased, and they are bought and sold as redial slaves with the land.
Suinianial is the capital of Turkish Kurdistan. Bebbeh, a Kurd clan, now dominant in Sa luda, and formerly very powerful. They claim scent from a European princess who married eir ancestor Fahib Ahmad.
The afendimi number 300 families. They are nder the Pasha of Sulimania.
Millis, a Kurd tribe, inhabit the Abdul Aziz age in the Sulimania district of Asiatic Turkey.
The Kurd are widely spread. They are found in Kurdistan, on the east of Persia, also in the west of Persia, in Asia Minor, and in Syria; they also possess Merv, they are numerous in Khor asan, are also met with in Baluchistan, on the Dasht-i-be-Daulat, and in Takari (Tirkari), in Catch Gandava, two miles N. of Cutchi; they say they can muster 50.0 fighting men. A few of the Kurd are on the Russian territory, some are' well within the Turkish, others within the Persian frontier. The nucleus of the Kurd family, how ever, lies south of Armenia, along the mountain ridge which separates Asiatic Turkey from Persia. They have many tribes, a few agricultural, but most of them pastoral and nomade. They are hardy, brave, and rapacious. The Mikri Kurd occupy the south of Azarbijan. They are agricul tural ; they are brave horsemen, and on one occasion, in the early part of the 19th century, drove the whole Russian cavalry off the field.
The Bilba tribe, in Lahijan in Azarbijan, are uoniade, roaming about the borders of Persia and Turkey-. They are the most predatory, turbulent, and treacherous of all the border tribes of Kurd istan, and have been ruthlessly hunted down by other tribes. They number about 5000 families, in three divisions,—Piran, Mengur, and Marnish.
Ilakari, Afshar, and Zerza are found in the Urumia district of Azarbijan.
The Kurd in Persian Khorasan were brought from Kurdistan by Shah Ismail, and settled on the eastern frontier of Persia, to check the inroads of the Turkomans. There were 4000 families, who have since increased to 50,000, and they are formidable, both on account of their numbers and their valour. They continue predatory, and re tain much of the Kurd language, though adopting the Persian dress.
The Amberlu Kurd, who occupy the Zetunabad district in Azarbijan, were settled there by Nadir Shah.
Urumia in Azarbijan, on the borders of Kurd istan, has 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants of the Mikri, Ilakari, Afshar, and Zerza. The plain is highly productive, but the people are poor and oppressed.