Visual contextCity context: a panorama over Sulaymaniyah. It places the Jewish quarter and cemetery records within their mountain-city setting, not at an exact heritage point.Adam Jones / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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DESTINATION DOSSIER
The historic Jewish quarter of Sulaymaniyah, locally remembered as Jewlakan, once home to one of Iraqi Kurdistan’s major Jewish communities.
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
CATEGORYJewish Quarter
REGIONSulaymaniyah
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