Arbil
| Erbil Kurdish: ھەولێر Arabic: أربيل Aramaic: ܐܪܒܝܠ Turkis: Erbil |
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| Clockwise: Hawler park, Great Mosque o Hawler, Minar pairk, Erbil Internaitional Airport, Hawler Citadel. | |
  Erbil
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| Coordinates: 36°11′28″N 44°0′33″E / 36.19111°N 44.00917°E | |
| Kintra |  Iraq |
| Autonomous region |  Kurdistan[1] |
| Province | Arbil |
| Settled | 9000 BC |
| Govrenment | |
| - Govrenor | Nawzad Hadi |
| Indwallers (2009 est.) | |
| - Tot | 1,293,839 |
Erbil (Hewlêr in Roman-alphabet Kurdish) (written Arbil, or Irbil an aw) (Akkadian: Arba-ilu; Arabic: اربيل Arbīl; Kurdish: ھەولێر Hewlêr; Sumerian: Urbilum; Syriac-Aramaic: ܐܪܒܝܠ Arbaelo) is, wi a population o approximately 1.3 million (2009), the fowert lairgest ceety in Iraq efter Baghdad, Basra an Mosul.[2] It is locatit 80 kilometres (50 miles) east o Mosul, an is the caipital o Iraqi Kurdistan.
Urban life at Erbil can be datit back tae at least 6000 BC,[3][4] an it is ane o the auldest continuously inhabitit ceeties in the warld.[3][4] At the hert o the ceety is the auncient Citadel o Arbil. The Hurrians wur the first tae establish Urbilum an expand their rule tae the rest o northren Mesopotamie. The ceety haes syne been unner the rule o mony regional pouers, includin the Assiries, the Babylonies, Kurds unner the rules o Persies, the Greeks, the Arabs, an the Seljuk an Ottoman Turks. Erbil's airchaeological museum hooses a lairge collection o pre-Islamic airtifacts, an is a center for airchaeological projects in the aurie.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kurdistan Regional Government. KRG. Retrieved on 21 Mey 2012. .
- ↑ Largest Cities in Iraq. mongabay.com (2002-01-01). Retrieved on 26 Januar 2009. .
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Czech archaeologists uncover Stone Age tools in Erbil, Iraq. Radio Prague (2010-03-17). Retrieved on 8 Dizember 2010. .
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Freemit airtins[edit]
- i Erbil – Portal for internaitional visitors
- Livius.org: Arbela
- Hospitality in Hawler Directory o hotels in Arbil wi contact information, photos an reviews.
