Erbil

Erbil (also written Arbil or Irbil) is the capital of Kurdistan Region. In Kurdish, the city is called Hewlêr. 1,190,251 people live there, mostly Kurds. The city is 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Mosul.

Erbil Media

• Citadel of Hewlêr (Erbil), Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg

  Citadel of Erbil, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2014

• Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of Saint Joseph 2005 (Ankawa, Erbil, Iraq).jpg

  Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil

• Siège d'Irbil 1258-1259.jpeg

  Siege of Erbil by the Ilkhanid Mongols in 1258–59 depicted in the Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Division Orientale

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  Provisions of the Treaty of Sèvres for an independent Kurdistan (in 1920)

• Postcard of the city of Erbil, 1900.jpg

  A postcard showing the city of Erbil in 1900

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  The main square in Erbil, Kurdistan, just south of the Citadel's South Gate and between the two main bazaar areas.

• The patriarchate of the Assyrian Church of the East in Erbil.jpg

  The patriarchate of the Assyrian Church of the East in Erbil

• Clock of Erbil.jpg

  Katjmirakhi Parki Shar, Haholer

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  قلعة اربيل

• One of the halls of the Erbil Civilization Museum displaying Mesopotamian artifacts from the Urartian, Hurrian, and Hatra periods.jpg

  Erbil Civilization Museum contains artifacts from the Assyrian, Urartian, Hurrian, and Hatra periods.