Kırtiler
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The Cyrtians or Kyrtians (, ) were an ancient tribe in historic Iran near the Zagros Mountains. Based on their name, it had been suggested in the past that they may be ancestors of the Kurds or the source of the ethnonym Kurd, but this is deemed unlikely by modern scholarship.
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- Pauly–Wissowa
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