Iranian trade delegation in Sulaimaniya tom.

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: An Iranian trade delegation, led by the governor of the Iranian Kermanshah city, will arrive tomorrow in Sulaimaniya city in preparation for an exhibition that is scheduled to take place next month. “Upon its arrival, the delegation will meet with representatives of Sulaimaniya’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce to discuss the latest preparations for an Iranian exhibition that is due to take place in the city at the end of the next month,” a member of the administrative committee of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Sulaimaniya province, Yasseen Raheem, told IraqiNews.com. The exhibition will be held in Sulaimaniya’s Talslouja district from November 25-28, in cooperation with the chambers of commerce in Sulaimaniya and Kermanshah. 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 centre for Iraqi Kurdistan. SS (S) 1