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Quake hits Kurdistan Iran
3.12.2006
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Orumiyeh, West
Azarbaijan Prov (Iran-Kurdistan), December 2, -- An
earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit
the city of Khoy in this northwestern Kurdish
province and surrounding areas south of the city
Saturday.
The seismological base of the Geophysics Institute
of Tehran University registered the quake at 10:09
hours local time (0639 GMT).
The quake was epicentered in an area measuring 45.09
degrees in longitude and 38.43 degrees in latitude,
the report added.
There are no reports of any casualty or damage to
property caused by the quake.
Iran is often hit by quakes of varying magnitudes as
it sits on some of the world's most active seismic
faultlines.
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Iranian Kurdistan ( Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern
Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę Kurdistan (East of
Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name for the parts of
Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq
and Turkey.
It includes the greater parts of West
Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah
Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority
of the population of this region with an estimated
population of 4 million. The region is the eastern
part of the greater cultural-geographical area
called Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran. The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
"Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan" (PDKI) was
founded in Mahabad, Iran, on August 16, 1945. PDKI
replaced the Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd (Council of
Kurdish Resurrection) which had been formed three
years earlier.
Just 159 days after its foundation in
January 22, 1946, the Party, availing itself of
expedient circumstances in a section of Iranian
Kurdistan, established the " Republic of Kurdistan
", usually referred to by historians as the Republic
of Mahabad , the reason being its choice of Mahabad
as the capital.
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