.jpg) A drawing of a Kurdish prince in the Ottoman Empire in an Italian book called Giro Mondo | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Over 500,000 families[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| All around Ottoman Kurdistan | |
| Languages | |
| Native: Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani, and others) Secondary: Ottoman Turkish Liturgical: Quranic Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam Minority: Twelver Shia, Alevism, 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. These parts of Greater Kurdistan ruled by the Ottomans are collectively known as Ottoman Kurdistan.
- ^ Olson (1989), p. 3.