Anatolian Shepherd population of FCI Registered Anatolian Shepherd Dogs are renamed to Kangal Shepherd Dog, and an updated breed standard for that population of dogs put in place. If it was possible for the Kangal Shepherd Dog breed to be genetically distinct and differentiated from the Anatolian Shepherd Dog, the Kangal Shepherd Dog would have undergone the FCI Provisional and Definitive breed recognition process and be issued its own FCI Standard Number. Duke; animal ambassador at the San Diego Zoo. Anatolian Shepherd The Anatolian Shepherd Dog () is a breed of dog which originated in the Anatolia region of central Turkey. It
History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula The history of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula reaches back to Biblical times. The Arabian Peninsula is defined as including parts of Iraq and Jordan geographically. Politically, the following countries are considered part of the peninsula: The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented over twenty-six centuries, from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 600 BCE, as noted in the Hebrew Bible and other historical evidence from the period, to modern Iraq. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities. In the 1930s,