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| '''Êzîdxan''' or '''Ezidkhan''' (Land of the Yazidis<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Turgut|first=Lokman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZ3HUILlfuQC&q=%C3%8Az%C3%AEdxan&pg=PA161|title=Mündliche Literatur der Kurden in den Regionen Botan und Hekarî|date=2010|publisher=Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH|isbn=978-3-8325-2727-3|pages=161|language=de}}</ref>) is what ] call the ]n region or ] that is now part of modern-day ], ] and ].<ref name=":2" /> The term means a sacred place or homeland.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Usman|first=Dr Shakir Muhammad|date=2021-01-01|title=A Tale of a Lost, Found, and Misunderstood Legacy in the Light of Mimetic Theory|url=https://www.academia.edu/50172491|journal=Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, Michigan State University Press|pages=259}}</ref><ref name=":1"> in LeEZA (Liga für emanzipatorische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit), (in German) p. 6, (1. August 2016)</ref> In addition, there are Yazidi autonomy efforts in northern Iraq to establish their own ] called ''Êzîdxan''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schliephack|first=Caspar|date=2015-03-14|title=Êzîdxan: Ein Projekt von Eziden und PKK - und die Rolle Deutschlands|url=https://dtj-online.de/eziden-pkk-kurden-ezidxan-irak/|access-date=2022-02-07|website=DTJ Online|language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ibrahim|first=Ferhad|title=Droht eine Zerstörung der ethnischen und religiösen Vielfalt im Irak? {{!}} APuZ|url=https://m.bpb.de/apuz/33465/droht-eine-zerstoerung-der-ethnischen-und-religioesen-vielfalt-im-irak|access-date=2022-02-07|website=bpb.de|language=de}}</ref> | |||
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| ] (also written as Shingal, the capital of Êzîdxan)]] | |||
| == Etymology == | |||
| Êzîdxan (other spellings: Ezidkhan, Ezdikhan, Ezidchan, Ezidikhan, Ezidichan) consists of the two words "Êzîdî" (own designation of the Yazidis) and Xan or Khan (meaning: house) and it literally means the "House of the Yazidis".<ref name=":1" /> It is also translated as the "Land of the Yazidis".<ref name=":0" /> Furthermore, the term "Êzîdxan" refers to the community of Yazidis.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rodziewicz|first1=Andrzej|last2=Jagiellonian University|first2=Krakow|date=2018-01-01|title=Milete min Êzîd. The Uniqueness of the Yezidi Concept of the Nation|url=https://www.academia.edu/38332894|journal=Securitologia|volume=1|issue=27|pages=73|issn=1898-4509}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arakelova|first=Victoria|title=Ethno-Religious Communities Identity markers|url=https://www.academia.edu/3764877|journal=Academia.edu|language=en|page=3}}</ref> | |||
| == Settlement areas == | |||
| {{Main|List of Yazidi settlements}} | |||
| The term "Êzîdxan" is also the designation of traditional and historical settlement areas of the Yazidis. The original main settlement areas of the Yazidis are in northern Mesopotamia, in today's northern Iraq, in northern Syria and in south-eastern Turkey. | |||
| == See also == | |||
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| == External links == | |||
| {{Commons category|Êzîdxan}} | |||
| == References == | |||
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