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Coordistan

Coordistan is the archaic spelling of Kurdistan.

Meaning of Kurdistan

Proper noun

Kurdistan

  1. A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
    • He was nicknamed Chemical Ali by Iraqi Kurds, who also called him the Butcher of Kurdistan2010 January 25, “Iraq executes Chemical Ali”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025
  2. (broadly) An autonomous region in northern and northeastern Iraq, lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.
  3. (broadly) A province in northwestern Iran, lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.

Questions about Coordistan

What is Coordistan the archaic spelling of?
Coordistan is the archaic spelling of Kurdistan.

Words near Coordistan in the dictionary

  1. coordinator
  2. coordinators
  3. coordinome
  4. coordinomes
  5. Coordish
  6. Coordistan
  7. coords
  8. Coore
  9. Coorg
  10. coorganizer
  11. coorganizers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Coordistan (page history and authors); Kurdistan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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