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Qalacholan

Qalacholan was the early capital of the Baban emirate, a Kurdish principality in the Sharazur region of present-day Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1784 the Baban ruler Ibrahim Pasha moved his seat to the new town of Sulaymaniyah, named after the Ottoman governor of Baghdad, and Qalacholan declined to a village.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Qalacholan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/qalacholan
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