Talk:Sulaymaniyah

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"Greater Kurdistan" - from what I understand, this doesn't exist, although the Kurds, naturally, would like it to. I imagine the wording here needs to be fixed up a bit. (anonymous)

It exists in flesh and blood. People - many of them the same people who pooh-pooh "Kurdistan" - regularly refer to "Palestine" and other places that don't officially exist. However, I'll add some wording referring to the fact that Kurdistan is a demographic region, not an official territorial designation. --Jpbrenna 23:44, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

1 Foundation of Slemani
2 Historical population
3 Move
4 Hakim Qadir

[edit] Foundation of Slemani

Slemani was not founded in 1786 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban. The city was founded in the classical age and was then called Sharazul/Sharazur. Ibrahim Pasha renamed the city Sulaimani and moved the capital of the Baban principality to this city from Qala Chwalan.

[edit] Historical population

A duplicate article about the town in Ottoman times listed the 1906 population as 12,000 people. I've changed Süleymanli to a redirect. Valentinian ^(talk) 16:55, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move

Google hits:

191.000 Sulaymaniyah.

10.900 Suleymania.

So previous version is more popular. If there are other reasons for move it should be discussed in Talk page, and formal RfM procedure held. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 19:36, 24 October 2006 (UTC)