GREATER KURDISTAN: The World's Largest Nation That Has No Country | 4K Travel Documentary

What holds the world's largest nation without a country together? Greater Kurdistan is split across Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, yet it still lives like one homeland. This 4K travel documentary follows one mountain range through thirteen places in four countries. Diyarbakır keeps its old city behind 3.6 miles of black basalt wall (UNESCO, 2015). Erbil Citadel has been rebuilt on the same mound for over 6,000 years, perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on record. In Hawraman, families farm terraces on 60-degree slopes worked since roughly 3000 BCE. Lake Urmia turns rust red every summer, colored by two organisms that live only in brine. You will also see how Kurdish memory travels without paper. Dengbêj singers hold hundreds of verses in one unaccompanied voice. Silversmiths in Mardin draw silver finer than hair. Weavers in Sanandaj invent each rug as they go. On the night of 21 March, bonfires light at the same hour on mountaintops in all four countries. #traveldocumentary #kurdistan #kurdish #zagrosmountains