Kurdish dance
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See also
- Kurdish culture
- Kurdish traditional clothing
- Armenian dance
- Assyrian folk dance
- Dabke (a form of Arabic dance)
- Syrtos (Greek)
- Turkish dance
References
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- ↑ Kurds, Kurdistan, Part 4. "Dances and music", The Encyclopedia of Islam, Edited by C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, B. Lewis & Ch. Pellat, Vol. V, KHE-MAHI, Leiden, E.J. BRILL Publishers, 1986, 1263 pp. (see p. 477).
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