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Origin Of The Kurds

"Modern-day Kurds themselves trace their origin to the Medes, an Indo-European tribe that descented from Central Asia into the Iranian plateau around 614 B.C. as one of the principal pre-isramic iranian dynasties."

Wasn't it around 614BC that the Assyrians took the Northern Tribes captive and moved them into this area?

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Wasn't it around 614BC that the Assyrians took the Northern Tribes captive and moved them into this area?

Yeah, about that time exactly.

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Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia
by Jonah Gabriel Lissner

...two millennia ago this land sheltered the proud Jewish kingdom of Adiabene, with its capital at Arbela, nominally part of the Assyrian province of the Parthian Empire... Helena, Queen of Adiabene, ruled of an empire influenced by the sciences of the Hellenes and the arts of the Persians, in the old foothills of the northern Tigris, on the south shores of the Caspian Sea, ruled a land increasingly swayed by the policies of the Roman Empire of the east, even as memory of the old Alexandran customs had begun to evaporate from the hearts and minds of the residents. To her east lay the treacherous Parthians, to the north the unpredictable Saksa, Dane and affiliated horse-nomads.

Beyond the Mountains of Darkness

Historical Dictionary: Gozan

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Wasn't it around 614BC that the Assyrians took the Northern Tribes captive and moved them into this area?

The Indo-Europeans and the Medes in particular were in Northern Iran right from at least the 3rd millenium BC. I seriously doubt the Kurds have any semitic roots

mosul is not Nineveh -- Nineveh was rediscovered by a British archaelogist in the 19th century when he brought the columns, statues etc back tot he British museum in london