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Erbil
Kurdish: ھەولێر Arabic: أربيلAramaic: ܐܪܒܝܠ Turkis: Erbil
Clockwise: Hawler park, Great Mosque o Hawler, Minar pairk, Erbil Internaitional Airport, Hawler Citadel.
Erbil is located in Iraq
Erbil
Erbil in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°11′28″N 44°0′33″E / 36.19111°N 44.00917°E / 36.19111; 44.00917
Kintra Banner o Iraq Iraq
Autonomous region Banner o Iraqi Kurdistan 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: اربيلArbīl; 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]

  1. Kurdistan Regional Government. KRG. Retrieved on 21 Mey 2012. .
  2. Largest Cities in Iraq. mongabay.com (2002-01-01). Retrieved on 26 Januar 2009. .
  3. 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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