Geli Ali Beg Waterfall

Geli Ali Beg Waterfall 2023
Panorama of Geli Ali Beg Waterfall
Another view

Geli Ali Beg Waterfall (Kurdish: Geliyê Elî Beg ,گەلیی عەلی بەگ)[1][2] is located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which lies some 130 km north of Erbil.

The waterfall is named after the Yazidi prince, Mîr Elî Beg who was executed by Prince Muhammad of Rawanduz at this valley at the end of 1833 for refusing to convert to Islam.[3][4]

It featured on the 5-dinar note issued 1978–1990.

  1. ^ "بۆ گرنگە برادۆست بناسین و بزانین چۆن کراوەتە دیارى بۆ تورکیا؟". ANF News (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Rêya Geliyê Elî Beg bo demekê tê daxistin!" (in Kurdish). 28 September 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ Ali, Majid Hassan (2019-11-01). "Genocidal Campaigns during the Ottoman Era: The Firmān of Mīr-i-Kura against the Yazidi Religious Minority in 1832–1834". Genocide Studies International. 13 (1): 77–91. doi:10.3138/gsi.13.1.05. ISSN 2291-1847.
  4. ^ Allison, Christine (2001). The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan. Psychology Press. pp. 57, 285. ISBN 978-0-7007-1397-4.