Up to a half of Turkey's Kurds have emigrated west from their mountainous homelands seeking jobs or peace.

They were relatively isolated by their hilly and mountainous homeland.

The Kurds have battled for years for autonomy for their mountainous homeland, which also includes parts of Iran, Syria and the Soviet Union.

Clusters of gray concrete houses dot the barren plains surrounding this city, like seedlings scattered here by winds blowing down from the mountainous Kurdish homeland to the north.

Nevertheless, the Dailamites managed to resist the Arab invasion of their own mountainous homeland for several centuries under their own local rulers.

He sat surrounded by a bevy of adoring women, regaling them with tales of his beautiful mountainous homeland.

For many Kurds a vote for the alliance was first and foremost an effort to secure autonomy for the mountainous Kurdish homeland in the north.

General Barsukov said on Saturday that if the rebels released the hostages and gave up their weapons, they would be guaranteed safe passage back to their mountainous homeland in the north Caucasus.

Emerging around the 16th century, it is characterised by religious and cultural harmony, patriotism and pride for their mountainous homeland of Kashmir.

Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.