Sulemania
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.
- City with about 878,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 880 metres (2,890 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ISU
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as“Al Sulaimaniya, As Sulaymānīyah, Sleimāni, Slēmānī, Sulaimania, Sulaimanieh, Sulaimaniya, Sulaimany, Sulaymānīyah, السليمانية, As Sulaymaniyah, Sleimani, Slemani, Sulaimania, Sulaimanieh, Sulaimaniya, Sulaimany, Sulaymaniyah, سلێمانی”“as-Sulaimānīya”“as-Sulaymāniyyah”“Silemani”“Slēmānī”“Sulaimani”“Sulaymānīyah”“Suleimaniyah”
Sulemania
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Latitude
35.5571° or 35° 33′ 25″ north
Longitude
45.4426° or 45° 26′ 33″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ SYH
Open location code
8H77HC4V+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sulemania” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Albanian: “Sulejmanije”
- Arabic: “السليمانية”
- Arabic: “السليمانيه”
- Arabic: “سليماني”
- Armenian: “Սուլեյմանիա”
- Asturian: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Azerbaijani: “Süleymaniyyə”
- Basque: “Silêmanî”
- Basque: “Sulaimaniya”
- Basque: “Suleimaniya”
- Belarusian: “Сулейманія”
- Bengali: “সুলায়মানিয়াহ”
- Bulgarian: “Сулеймания”
- Bulgarian: “Сюлеймания”
- Catalan: “Silemani”
- Catalan: “Sulaimaniya”
- Catalan: “Sulaymaniya”
- Catalan: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Catalan: “Sulaymaniyya”
- Cebuano: “As Sulaymānīyah”
- Cebuano: “Silêmanî”
- Central Kurdish: “سلێمانی”
- Central Kurdish: “سولەیمانی”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری سلێمانی”
- Chinese: “苏莱曼尼亚”
- Chinese: “蘇萊曼尼亞”
- Croatian: “Silêmanî”
- Croatian: “Sulejmanija”
- Czech: “Sulajmáníja”
- Czech: “Sulejmánie”
- Danish: “Silêmanî”
- Danish: “Slêmanî”
- Danish: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Danish: “Suleymanya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sılêmaniya”
- Dutch: “Silêmanî”
- Dutch: “Slemany”
- Dutch: “Soeleimanija”
- Dutch: “Sulaimaniya”
- Dutch: “Sulaymaniya”
- Dutch: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Dutch: “Suleimaniya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السليمانيه”
- Esperanto: “Sulajmanija”
- Esperanto: “Sulejmanijo”
- Estonian: “As-Sulaymānīyah”
- Estonian: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Finnish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Finnish: “as-Sulaimaniyya”
- Finnish: “Sulaimania”
- Finnish: “Sulaimaniyya”
- French: “As-Sulaymaniya”
- French: “Souleimaniye”
- French: “Souleimaniyeh”
- French: “Souleymaniah”
- Georgian: “სულეიმანია”
- German: “Silêmanî”
- German: “Slemani”
- German: “Sulaimaniya”
- German: “Sulaimaniyya”
- German: “Sulamaniya”
- German: “Sulaymania”
- German: “Sulaymaniyah”
- German: “Sulaymaniyya”
- German: “Suleimanija”
- German: “Süleymania”
- Greek: “Σουλεϊμανίγια”
- Gujarati: “સુલેમાનયા”
- Hebrew: “סולימאניה”
- Hebrew: “סולימניה”
- Hindi: “सुलेमानियाः”
- Hungarian: “Szulejmánijja”
- Indonesian: “As-Sulaimaniyah”
- Indonesian: “Silêmanî”
- Indonesian: “Sulaimaniyah”
- Irish: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Italian: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Italian: “Sulaymaniyya”
- Italian: “Suleimania”
- Japanese: “スライマーニーヤ”
- Japanese: “スレイマニーヤ”
- Japanese: “スレイマニヤ”
- Javanese: “Silêmanî”
- Javanese: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Kannada: “ಸುಲೈಮಾನಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “술라이마니야”
- Kurdish: “Silêmanî”
- Kurdish: “Silêmaniyê”
- Kurdish: “Slêmanî”
- Kurdish: “Sulaimaniya”
- Kurdish: “Sûleymaniye”
- Kurdish: “سلێمانی”
- Latin: “Suleimania”
- Latvian: “Suleimānija”
- Lithuanian: “Suleimanija”
- Malay: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Malay: “As-Sulaimaniyah”
- Malay: “Silêmanî”
- Malay: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Malayalam: “സുലൈമാനിയ”
- Maori: “Suleymaniyah”
- Marathi: “सुलेमानिया”
- Mazanderani: “سلیمانیه”
- Mingrelian: “სულეიმანია”
- Moksha: “Сулэймания”
- Nauru: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suleimania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suleimania”
- Norwegian: “Suleimania”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܘܠܝܡܐܢܝܐ”
- Ossetian: “Сулеймани”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “سلیمانیه”
- Persian: “سلیمانیه”
- Persian: “شهر سلیمانیه”
- Polish: “As-Sulajmanijja”
- Polish: “Sulajmanijja”
- Portuguese: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Portuguese: “Suleimânia”
- Romanian: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Romanian: “Silêmanî”
- Russian: “Сулеймания”
- Scots: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Serbian: “Сулејманија”
- Sinhala: “සුලයිමනියා”
- Slovenian: “Sulajmanija”
- Slovenian: “Sulejmanija, Irak”
- Slovenian: “Sulejmanija”
- Spanish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Spanish: “Solimania”
- Spanish: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Spanish: “Suleimaniya”
- Swedish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
- Swedish: “As-Sulaimāniyya”
- Swedish: “As-Sulaymānīyä”
- Swedish: “As-Sulaymaniyya”
- Swedish: “Sharezur”
- Swedish: “Silemani”
- Swedish: “Slêmanî”
- Swedish: “Sulaimaniya”
- Swedish: “Sulaymaniya”
- Swedish: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Swedish: “Sulaymaniyya”
- Swedish: “Sulaymanya”
- Swedish: “Suleimania”
- Swedish: “Suleimaniya”
- Swedish: “Sulimaniyah”
- Tajik: “Сулаймония”
- Talysh: “Sulejmanijə”
- Talysh: “Suleymaniyyə”
- Tamil: “சுலமனியா”
- Tatar: “Сөләймания”
- Telugu: “సులేమనియాహ్”
- Thai: “อัสซุลัยมานียะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Süleymaniye”
- Uighur: “سۇلەيمانىيە”
- Ukrainian: “Сулейманія”
- Urdu: “سلیمانیہ”
- Uzbek: “Sulaymoniya”
- Venetian: “Sulaymaniyya”
- Vietnamese: “Sulaymaniyah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulamaniya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulaymaniyah”
- Western Panjabi: “سلێمانی”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇利曼尼亞”
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