1,100 housing units to be constructed in Sulaimaniya

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: A Kurdish contracting company will soon begin work on a residential project to construct 1,100 housing units in Sulaimaniya city. “The project will be implemented on an area of 80 donums (1 donum= 2,500 square meters) on al-Sitteen St., southern Sulaimaniya,” Shaswar Abdelwahed told IraqiNews.com. Low-income persons will be able to pay small installments for these units, Abdelwahed noted, adding that work on the project will take one year. The modern city of Sulaimaniya, 364 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, was founded in 1748 by a Kurdish prince known as Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it for his father Sulaiman Pasha. Since being founded as the capital of a powerful Kurdish principality it has grown to about 1,800,000 people. Sulaimaniya, known as Zamwa prior to its founding, is the cultural center of the Sorani-speaking Kurds and an important economic center for Iraqi Kurdistan. SS (P)/SR 1