Ottoman Kurds
A drawing of a Kurdish prince in the Ottoman Empire in an Italian book called Giro Mondo | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Over 500,000 families (1880) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ottoman Kurdistan | |
| Languages | |
| Kurdish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam Minority: Yazidism, Alevism, Twelver Shi'ism, Hanafism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Modern Kurds and other Iranian peoples |
Ottoman Kurds were ethnic Kurds who lived in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled North Kurdistan, South Kurdistan, West Kurdistan, and a small part of East Kurdistan. Parts of Greater Kurdistan under Ottoman control are collectively known as Ottoman Kurdistan.