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Sulaymaniyah

Also known as Slemani, Sulaimani

Sulaymaniyah is a city in the Kurdistan Region of north-eastern Iraq, near the Iranian border. It was founded in 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban as the capital of the Baban emirate and named after the Ottoman governor of Baghdad, Sulayman Pasha. It became a centre of Kurdish culture and nationalism, and in the 1920s Shaikh Mahmud Barzanji proclaimed a Kingdom of Kurdistan there.

Sulaymaniyah
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Mentioned in 4 state histories

HamaziZamuaBaban emirateKingdom of Kurdistan

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sulaymaniyah. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sulaymaniyah
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“Sulaymaniyah.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sulaymaniyah. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Sulaymaniyah.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sulaymaniyah.
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sulaymaniyah’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sulaymaniyah (Accessed: ).

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