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.
It is locatit 80 kilometres (50 mile) east o Mosul, an is the caipital o Iraqi Kurdistan.
Arbil | |
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Erbil in Iraq | |
Coordinates: 36°11′28″N 44°0′33″E / 36.19111°N 44.00917°E | |
Kintra | Iraq |
Autonomous region | Kurdistan |
Province | Arbil |
Settled | 9000 BC |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Nawzad Hadi |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,750,000 |
Urban life at Erbil can be datit back tae at least 6000 BC, an it is ane o the auldest continuously inhabitit ceeties in the warld. 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.
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