Sulaymaniyah Postal Code Is 46001

Sulaymaniyah is a city located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, east of the Iran-Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, Goizha and Qaiwan Mountains in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. It has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cold wet winters. The city has a rich history and culture, with a reputation for producing great poets, writers, scholars, politicians, and singers. 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. The city has served as the capital of the historic principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850. The region of Sulaymaniyah was known as Zamwa before the foundation of the modern city, and was the capital of the Kurdish Baban principality before Sulaymaniyah. During the 1800s, refugees from Ardalan moved to Sulaymaniyah. 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.