The flowers of Kurdistan, by their Kurdish names.

Every flower with its names in each Kurdish dialect, when it blooms, and its story.

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Sunday 25 October

Oak
OakQuercusKurmanji: Darberû

Number of species worldwide: About 400 to 500 species of the oak genus (Quercus). The number varies with the classification, because some researchers count certain species as separate species, while others count them as subspecies.

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We have often read and heard that the clay (earth) from which human beings are made is a belligerent earth. But it is neither true nor just to say, in a scientific way, that the…

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