Sulaymaniyah

For other uses, see Sulaymaniyah (disambiguation).
Sulaymaniyah
سلێمانی
Silêmanî
City
Top-bottom, R-L:
View over Suleymaniyah
Roman amphitheater • Sharafkhan Bidlisi statue
Amna Suraka Museum • Sulaymaniyah Museum
Suleymaniyah at night
Sulaymaniyah is located in Iraq
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah
Coordinates: 35°33′26″N 45°26′08″E / 35.55722°N 45.43556°E / 35.55722; 45.43556
Country Iraq
RegionKurdistan Region
GovernorateSulaymaniyah Governorate
Government
 • GovernorHaval Abubakir[1]
Elevation
882 m (2,895 ft)
Population
 • Estimate 
(2018)[2]
676,492
Time zoneUTC+3 (AST)
Websitehttps://slemani.gov.krd/

Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (Kurdish: سلێمانی, romanized: Silêmanî;[3][4] Arabic: السليمانية, romanized: as-Sulaymāniyyah[5]), 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 (Ezmer), Goizha (Goyje) and Qaiwan (Qeywan) Mountains in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cold wet winters.

The modern city of Slemani was founded in 1784[6] by the Ottoman-Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban, who named it after his father Sulayman Pasha.[7] Slemani was the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.

  1. ^ "Sulaimani Polytechnic University". spu.edu.iq. 13 June 2015. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Iraq: Governorates & Cities".
  3. ^ "Bi wêneyên Pêşengeha Pirtûkan a Navnetewî ya Silêmanî". Rûdaw. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  4. ^ "سەرۆکی هەرێمی کوردستان سەردانی سلێمانی دەکات". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). 25 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  5. ^ "السليمانية". Al Jazeera (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  6. ^ Cockrell-Abdullah, Autumn (2018). "There Is No Kurdish Art". The Journal of Intersectionality. 2 (2): 103–128. doi:10.13169/jinte.2.2.0103. ISSN 2515-2114. JSTOR 10.13169/jinte.2.2.0103 – via JSTOR.
  7. ^ Ali, Meer Ako (13 November 2011). "Sulaimany: 227 years of glory". The Kurdistan Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019.