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Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq · Asia
About Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah sits on the route: 25 minutes from Chwarta.
Sulaymaniyah is in Iraq, with about 880,000 people. The nearest town is Chwarta, about 21 km away.
Sulaymaniyah (Arabic: السليمانية, romanized: as-Sulaymāniyyah) or Slemani (Kurdish: سلێمانی, romanized: Silêmanî), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It is surrounded by the Azmar, Goizha and Qaiwan Mountains in the northeast, Baranan Mountain inRead more
the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west.
The modern city of Slemani was founded in 1784 by the Ottoman-Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban in Collaboration with Azim Beg and Haji Aziz Bey Aghal Dwanze Swarey Meriwane Jawamer Agha Rangena, who named it after his father Sulayman Pasha. Slemani was the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.
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Sulaymaniyah is in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, about 21 km from Chwarta.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 878,146
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Iraq
- Region
- Sulaymaniyah
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
- Coordinates
- 35.5650, 45.4329
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