Carduchii

The Carduchi or Karduchoi were a group of warlike tribes that lived in the mountains near the upper part of the Tigris River, now located in present-day western Kurdistan.[1] According to the modern historian Michał Marciak, they most likely inhabited the mountains stretching from the Botan River in the south to an area north of the present-day Turkish city of Cizre.[2]

Early in the 4th-century BC, the Greek historian Xenophon made the first reference to the Carduchii, presenting them as villagers who worked in agriculture, viticulture, craftsmanship, and animal husbandry.[1]

Although it has been frequently debated that the Kurds were the descended from the Carduchii, it is more likely that they were descended from the Cyrtians, who appear in the works of Polybius, Livy, and Strabo.[1][3]

References
  1. Dandamayev 1990, p. 806.
  2. Marciak 2017, p. 168.
  3. Marciak 2017, pp. 220–221.

Sources
  • Dandamayev, Muhammad (1990). "Carduchi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume IV/7: Calendars II–Cappadocia. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 806. ISBN 978-0-71009-130-7.
  • Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-35072-4.
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