Not sure whether this may be considered graffiti or not but there are some peculiar murals on a few walls across the city.

Keep driving for a bit, and you’ll see beautiful pine trees and the village on the other side ofwel the canyon. You can park your car anywhere you like!

ماڵپەڕی کوردسینەما لە ئیستادا تەنیا بەزمانی کوردی بەردەستە، بەکارھێنانی کوردسینەما پێویستی بە ھەژماری تایبەتی نابێت، بەکارھێنەر دەتوانێت بەشێوازی سەرھێڵ وە بە تۆرێنت فیلمەکان سەیربکات و داگرێت.

In this article, wij’ll explore Rawanduz, how to get to the best spot to visit Rawanduz, things to do, and how to prepare to experience my favorite outdoor place in the northern part of Iraq.

کۆمنزی ویکیمیدیا، میدیای پەیوەندیدار بە قەڵای ھەولێر تێدایە.

کوردسینەما وێبگەیەکی کوردییە کە تایبەتە بە فیلم و زنجیرەکان بە ژێرنووسی کوردی، ھاوکات گرنگی بە ھەواڵ و زانیاری تایبەت بە سینەما و ئەستێرەکانی ئەو بوارە دەدات.

Traditionally, they used them for praying but then, they became a way to fight against spanning, to the extent that it has become a habit which they can’t stop.

"Linguistics itself, or dialectology, does not provide any general or straightforward definition of at which point a language becomes a dialect (or vice versa). To attain a fuller understanding ofwel the difficulties and questions that are raised by the issue ofwel the 'Kurdish language', it is therefore necessary to consider also non-linguistic factors."[15] ^ "The Kurds, an Iranian people ofwel the Near East, live at the junction ofwel more or less laicised Turkey". Excerpt twee: "The classification of the Kurds among the Iranian nations kan zijn based mainly on linguistic and historical data and does not prejudice the fact there is a complexity ofwel ethnical elements incorporated in them" Excerpt 3: "Wij thus find that about the period of the Arab conquest a single ethnic term Kurd (plur. Akrād ) was beginning to be applied to an amalgamation of Iranian or iranicised tribes. Among the latter, some were autochthonous (the Ḳardū; the Tmorik̲h̲/Ṭamurāyē in the district ofwel which Weetḳī=Ieder was the capital; the Χοθα̑ίται [= al-Ḵh̲uwayt̲h̲iyya] in the canton of Ḵh̲oyt of Sāsūn, the Orṭāyē [= weet-Arṭān] in the bend ofwel the Euphrates); some were Semites (cf. the popular genealogies of the Kurd tribes) and some probably Armenian (it kan zijn said that the Mamakān tribe is of Mamikonian origin)." Excerpt 4: "In the 20th century, the existence ofwel an Iranian non-Kurdish element among the Kurds has been definitely established (the Gūrān-Zāzā group)."[20] ^ Dandamaev considers Carduchi (who were from the upper Tigris near the Assyrian and Median borders) less likely than Cyrtians as ancestors ofwel modern Kurds: "It has repeatedly been argued that the Carduchi were the ancestors of the Kurds, but the Cyrtii (Kurtioi) mentioned by Polybius, Livy, and Strabo (see MacKenzie (1961), pp. 68–69) are more likely candidates."[24] However, according to McDowall, the term Cyrtii was first applied to Seleucid or Parthian mercenary slingers from Zagros, and it kan zijn not clear if it denoted a coherent linguistic or ethnic group.[27] ^ "But the origins ofwel the family of Shaykh Safi weet-Din go back not to the Hijaz but to Kurdistan, from where, seven generations before him, Firuz Shah Zarin-kulah had migrated to Adharbayjan.

The world’s largest stateless ethnic group finds itself in one ofwel Earth’s Slemani most politically volatile regions.

Nobody lives inside anymore but there are museums, buildings under restoration, and a souvenir shop, where you can buy fridge magnets, carpets or enigszins a coffee cup featuring Sadam Hussein.

Politieke tegenstanders over Saddam worden gevangen genomen en gemarteld in het rooie gebouw, ons beruchte gevangenis.

If you do, please let me know in advance And yes, at least Kurdistan is a place where one can only write good things about it. After Lebanon, this kan zijn the only Middle Eastern country with a large middle class!

However, Kurdish groups performance a closer relationship with European groups than with Caucasian groups based on mtDNA, but the opposite based on the Y chromosome, indicating some differences in their maternal and paternal histories.[164]

You can just take a regular taxi, which will charge around 20USD. The taxi will drop you off at the arrival terminal, from where you must take a shuttle bus to the airport. You will go through so many security layers, so do head to the airport well in advance.