Sulaymaniyah or Slemani:  Silêmanî) is a city in Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan of Iraq) and the capital of  Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic  principality of  from 1784 to 1850.
The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. Because it was founded as the capital of a powerful  principality, Sulaymaniyah has developed into a large city with a population of more than 1,500,000 people. It is an important economic center for northern Iraq and has been named the cultural center for sorani-speaking continuously since 1992
From its foundation Sulaymaniyah was always a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and sin

gers, such as Nali, Mahwi, Piamerd.