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unusual facts about as-Sulaymaniyah



`Abdu'l-Bahá

After a year of difficulties Bahá'u'lláh absented himself rather than continue to face the conflict with Mirza Yahya and secretly secluded himself in the mountains of Sulaymaniyah in April 1854 a month before `Abdu'l-Bahá's tenth birthday.

1991 uprising in Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah, a Kurdish city of over 100,000 population was the first Iraqi city to be captured by rebels and the last one to fall.

Ahmed Uthman

He was the first Mutasarrif (governor) of Erbil in the first Iraqi government (1921-1927), the Mutasarrif of Sulaymaniyah (1927-1929), member of the Iraqi House of Notables or Senate "Majlis al-Ayan" (1929-1937), and Member of the House of Deputies "Majlis al-Nuwaab" representing Erbil (1937-1946).

Andi Siebenhofer

To prevent terroristic encroachments, the interior ministry will monitor the approach- and take off paths of the airports in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.

Asia Cell

Asiacell, the first mobile telecommunications company in Iraq, was established in the city of Sulaymaniyah in 1999.

Asuda

Asuda is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-affiliated organization based in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.

Awena

Awena is a weekly independent Kurdish newspaper, published every Tuesday in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan .

Bahá'í pilgrimage

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, also known as the "Most Great House" (Bayt-i-A'zam) and the "House of God," is where Bahá'u'lláh lived from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years when he left to the mountains of Kurdistan, northeast of Baghdad, near the city of Sulaymaniyah).

Bahá'í timeline

April 10, Bahá'u'lláh retreats to the Sulaymaniyah mountains within Kurdistan due to a rising tensions between Mírzá Yahyá and himself.

Bakhtiar Sajjadi

A Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms, (Kurdish-English), Sulaymaniyah, Sardam Publishers, 2001,(co-authored Muhamad Mahmudi).

Barham Salih

His term was marked by a turbulence time with the rise of an opposition(Movement for Change) to challenge the government while his own party was scrambling to stay together after losing the stronghold city of Sulaymaniyah.

Early Kurdish nationalism

The Iraqi Prime Minister, before the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, was authorized to meet with Kurdish tribal leaders in Sulaymaniyah in 1923.

Gaby Rado

Gaby Rado (17 January 1955, Budapest—30 March 2003, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) was a British television journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion.

It is believed that he fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, into the car park below where he was found in what appeared to be an accident unconnected with any military activity.

History of Jews in Kurdistan

He interviewed 56 Kurdish Jews from six towns (Zahko, Aqrah, Amadiya, Dohuk, Sulaimaniya and Shinno/Ushno/Ushnoviyya), as well as dozens of villages, mostly in the region of Bahdinan.

Hood event

On July 4, 2003, soldiers from the United States Army's 173d Airborne Brigade raided a safehouse in the Kurdish-held Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah.

Ibrahim Ahmad

In 1944 he became the head of the local branch of Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd (J.K.) in Sulaymaniyah.

Ibrahim Hazboun

In 1996 he published a book in Arabic explaining the basics of astrology; the book was a big success and was even pirated and translated into other languages such as the Kurdish language in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Jalal Dabagh

He received his compulsory- and senior high school education in Silêmanî, where he also went on studying at teachers' training college.

Jasim Mohammed Jaafar

He went to university in Sulaymaniyah where he obtained a masters degree in civil engineering.

Kiss the Dust

The story is based on a Kurdish family living in Sulaymaniyah, a city in northeastern Iraq in 1984 during a time of war.

Kurdistan Islamic Union

The violence quickly spread throughout the Bahdinan area of Iraqi Kurdistan, to nearby Dohuk, and eventually as far as way as the south-eastern Sorani city of Sulaymaniyah.

Latif Rashid

Dr Rashid is a Kurd, born in 1944 in Sulaymaniyah, and is an active member of the PUK under the leadership of Mr Jalal Talabani.

Lullubi

Most notably, Ashur-nasir-pal II had to suppress a revolt among the Lullubian / Zamuan chiefs in 881 BC, during which they constructed a wall in the Bazian pass (between modern Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah) in a failed attempt to keep the Assyrians out.

Mamluk dynasty of Iraq

Kurdish Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah was founded during the time of Sulayman Pasha and is named after him.

The conflict culminated in the Iranian invasion of Iraq and the occupation of Sulaymaniyah in 1818.

Mastoureh Ardalan

When the Qajar state conquered the Ardalan territory in 19th century, she and her family left for the Baban principality centered in Sulaymaniyah.

Mirawdale

Kamal Mirawdeli received majority of votes in the Sulaimaniya and Soran regions.

Mount Nisir

Mount Nisir (also spelled Mount Niṣir, and also called Mount Nimush), mentioned in the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, is supposedly the mountain known as today as Pir Omar Gudrun (elevation 9000 ft.), near the city Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Operation Zafar 7

Victory seemed to be in the hands of Iran as they reached Sulaymaniyah but they failed to capture it.

As a result of those setbacks, Iran was unable to reach its objective of capturing Sulaymaniyah.

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

The formation of a new list, the Change List, that was formed by Nawshirwan Mustafa, a former PUK member, won the majority of the votes in Sulaymaniyah by 51%.

Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan

This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments in 1996, a KDP-controlled one in Arbil and a PUK-controlled one in as-Sulaymaniyah, each with their own Prime Minister.

Provincial Iraqi Control

As of October 2008, thirteen provinces had successfully completed transition to provincial Iraqi control: al Muthanna, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Maysan, Dahuk, Arbil, Sulaymaniyah, Karbala, Basra, Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Anbar, Babil and Wasit.

Qaladiza

Qaladiza or Qeladze is a town of 114,000 inhabitants in the Kurdistan Regional Government region in Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Sulaymaniyah, near the Iranian border.

RAF Iraq Command

February to May 1923 - Following the anti-British activities of Sheikh Mahmud, delayed-action bombs are dropped outside Sulaymaniyah in an effort to get the Sheikh to adopt more pro-British policies.

Rizgar Mohammed Amin

Amin lives in Sulaymaniyah with his wife Nazanin Ahmed (born 1962) and four children, born between 1990 and 2001.

Slemani Polytechnic University

Another duty of this University which is accomplished through 8 institutes and 2 colleges is to prepare experts and technical staff for the development of the society, government sector and the private sector, in addition to the administrative supervision of the institutes and technical colleges located within the boundaries of Slemani and Garmiyan.

Slemani Polytechnic University ( SPU) زانكؤى بؤليته كنيكى سليَمانى is a public university which is located in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Qirga District in Kurdistan Kurdistan Region of Iraq.


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