The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “Principal Iraqi port”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : KURD
A Kurd is a member of an ethnic and linguistic group living in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other adjacent areas. Most of the Kurds live in contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey—a somewhat loosely defined geographic region generally referred to as Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”). The name has different connotations in Iran and Iraq, which officially recognize internal entities by this name: Iran’s western province of Kordestān and Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region. A sizable noncontiguous Kurdish population also exists in the Khorāsān region, situated in Iran’s northeast.
Kurds speak one of two dialects of Kurdish, a West Iranian language related to Modern Persian. Traditionally nomadic, most were forced into farming by the redrawing of state borders after World War I (1914–18). Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, although Sufism is also widely practiced. Plans for a Kurdish state, promised by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), which dissolved the Ottoman Empire, were never realized. Kurds in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq have been variously persecuted and pressured to assimilate; Iraqi attacks were particularly severe during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and following the Persian Gulf War (1990–91).
More clues
- BASRA Principal Iraqi port
- UMM QASR Iraqi port city which Geoff Hoon likened to Southampton
- TARIK Iraqi VIP Aziz
- KURDS Iraqi minority
- ARABS Iraqi and Saudi
- AMARA Iraqi city
- TRIBE Iraqi group
- DATES Iraqi exports
- SUNNI Member of an Iraqi minority
- AKBAR “Allahu ” (Iraqi flag phrase)
- DINAR Detective rushed back to Iraqi capital
- NOURI Iraqi leader al-Maliki
- MOSUL Iraqi city
- HAITI Strike Iraqi leader surrounding a country
- TARIQ Long-time Iraqi diplomat, _ Aziz
- BLAIR ‘Leading Briton launching an Iraqi raid ‘
- SAUDI Iraqi neighbour
- IRANI Iraqi neighbor
- ASIAN Thai or Iraqi
- PASTA Gone on central Iraqi food
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