Kar-daKI-ka 21st ce. B.C.E. Karda Land of Valiant Mountain People Central Zagros East Terminological Analysis
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49273#.VJEX78nQrzE Author(s) Ferdinand Hennerbichler Affiliation(s) Kurdology Center, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . ABSTRACT The toponym “kar-da KI -ka” (“ma-da kar-da KI -ka”) means land of “Karda”, which derives most likely out of Akkadian “qarda” (“qurda”) for heroic, brave, valiant, and warlike (mountain) people. It was geographically located in ancient heartlands of the Guti(ans) in central Zagros east areas in Northwest Iran of today, and was documented in several late Sumerian UrIII sources at the end of the 3 rd millennium B.C.E. from Girsu in south Mesopotamia. Origin and ethnic affiliations of the...