Liberation of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan
Liberation of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan is held on March 7. This event in the first decade of the month March is annual.
The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850. From 1922 to 1924, Sulaymaniyah was the capital of the Kingdom of Kurdistan, a short-lived unrecognized state declared by Iraqi Kurds following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.