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SULEIMANIEH, or SULEIMANIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SULEIMANIEH, or SULEIMANIA , the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak of the same name in See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Mosul, situated on a treeless See also:plain in the See also:Kurdistan Mountains, in the region known as Shehrizor, some 40 or 50 M. from the See also:Persian frontier, at an See also:elevation of 2.895 ft. It is a military station, and was founded towards the See also:close of the lrth See also:century. The estimated See also:population is about 12,000, of whom i i,000 are Kurds, and the See also:majority of the remaining l000 See also:Jews.

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