13 Facts About Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah, spelled as Slemani, is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border.

From its foundation Sulaymaniyah was always a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nali, Mahwi, and Piramerd.

The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded in 1784 by the Ottoman-Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban, who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha.

Sulaymaniyah was the capital of the historic principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.

Region of Sulaymaniyah was known as Zamwa prior to the foundation of the modern city in 1784.

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The capital of the Kurdish Baban principality, before Sulaymaniyah, was a territory named "Qelaciwalan".

Sulaymaniyah chose Melkendi, then a village but now a district in central Sulaymaniyah, to construct a number of serahs for his political and armed units.

The new city of Sulaymaniyah was named after Sulaiman Baba, who was the first Baban prince to gain control of the province of Sarezur.

From 1922 to 1924, Sulaymaniyah was the capital of the Kingdom of Kurdistan, a short-lived unrecognized state declared by Iraqi Kurds following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

University of Sulaymaniyah was opened in 1968 with instruction in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Sulaymaniyah is the only city in South Kurdistan that regularly celebrates World Music Day or Fete de la Musique.

Sulaymaniyah attracted more than 15,000 Iranian tourists in the first quarter of 2010, many drawn by the fact it is not subject to strict laws faced at home.

In recent years, many people in Sulaymaniyah have distanced themselves from Kurdish nationalism as the Kurdistan Workers Party is experiencing a surge.