The beginnings of ancient Kurdistan (c. 2500-1500 BC) : a historical and cultural synthesis

Abstract

The dissertation is a history of the early states of the region

known nowadays as Kurdistan. The first emergence of these states in the

written records of Mesopotamia and its neighbours. The history of the

region in the period covered by the dissertation is scarcely known and studied, but the discovery of new inscriptional material and some archaeological finds, made it possible to write this history and study the development of the petty states into a unified empire towards the period covered by this work, i.e. in about 1500 BC.