Iranian company to open branch in Sulaimaniya

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: An Iranian company for manufacturing agricultural tractors will soon open a branch in Sulaimaniya city, a local official said on Monday. “Upon the request of Sulaimaniya Governor Dana Ahmed Majeed, Azerbaijan Company will open a branch in the province in one month,” the mayor of the border Banjawin district, Aziz Mina Sofi, told IraqiNews.com news agency. A delegation from Sulaimaniya visited the Iranian city of Tabriz in April 2009. During the visit, an agreement was made to open a new branch in the province. 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 (P) 1