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| '''Êzîdxan''' or '''Ezidkhan''' (also known as '''Yezidistan'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aziz Tamoyan informs UN about massacres of Yezidis in Northern Iraq |url=https://armenpress.am/eng/news/671761 |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=armenpress.am |language=en}}</ref> or '''Ezidistan''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Minahan |first=James B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGClDAAAQBAJ&dq=Ezidistan&pg=PA568 |title=Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World, 2nd Edition: Ethnic and National Groups around the World |date=2016-08-01 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-954-9 |language=en}}</ref> English: ''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 the native name of the ] region<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anand |first=Rakesh |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=zt03EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT388&dq=known+natively+as+ezidkhan&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR9ITT55P4AhWJSfEDHZL7Cf4Q6AF6BAgDEAM |title=Is God in Coma? |date=2021-07-12 |publisher=Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-93-5486-237-3 |pages=388 |language=en}}</ref> and is also used by ] to call the Mesopotamian 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> It is also a ] ] in northern Iraq.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burnett |first=M. Troy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OprzDwAAQBAJ&dq=ezidkhan+autonomy&pg=PA394 |title=Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World |date=2020-08-04 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-5000-4 |language=en |quote=declaration made in August 2017 by Yazidi nationalists of an unrecognized autonomous government of Ezidkhan.}}</ref> | |||
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| == 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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| == References == | |||
| {{Commons category|Êzîdxan}} | |||
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