Balchugh
Balchugh is a village in Sulaymaniyah District, Sulemania Governorate. Balchugh is situated nearby to the village Bngrd, as well as near the locality Cham i Kani Pan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kunara.
Kunara
Archaeological site
Photo: Neuroforever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tell Kunara is an ancient Near East archaeological site about 10 kilometers southwest of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It lies on the Tanjaro River. The site was occupied from the Chalcolithic period to the early second millennium BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sulemania.
Sulemania
Photo: Nawa Mukerji, CC BY 3.0.
Sulemania was founded in 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish prince, to be the capital of his principality. Since then it has been Iraqi Kurdistan’s cultural capital and home to philosophers, poets and writers.
Balchugh
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “Balchiq”, “Bālchūgh”, “Balchukh”, “Bāljūgh”, “Gāwānī Bālchukh”, and “Kawānī Bālchū”
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sulaymaniyah District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.53206° or 35° 31′ 55″ northLongitude
45.34083° or 45° 20′ 27″ eastElevation
705 metres (2,313 feet)Open location code
8H77G8JR+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 10314663567OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Kurdish—“Balchugh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالجوغ”
- Arabic: “بالچوغ”
- Central Kurdish: “باڵچوغ”
- Kurdish: “Bałchugh”
- Kurdish: “Balchux”
- Kurdish: “باڵچوخ”
- Kurdish: “باڵچوغ”
Localities in the Area
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