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Did you know that it takes the bottom 12 states combined to equal the population of Illinois?

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Throughout the 16th century, Persian Shah Ismail I and his successors deported tens of thousands of Kurds to the Khorasan region, ostensibly to act as a buffer against Central Asian Turkic warlords. How was this Kurdish buffer intended to prevent Turkic incursion, and was it ever used to any effect?

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Did you know that it takes the bottom 12 states combined to equal the population of Illinois?	532	illinois
Throughout the 16th century, Persian Shah Ismail I and his successors deported tens of thousands of Kurds to the Khorasan region, ostensibly to act as a buffer against Central Asian Turkic warlords. How was this Kurdish buffer intended to prevent Turkic incursion, and was it ever used to any effect?	6	AskHistorians