About of Erbil

Erbil known in ancient history as Arbela and also spelled Arbil

Arbel and Irbil, is the capital city of Kurdistan Region and the most populated city in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is located approximately

in the center of Iraqi Kurdistan region and the north of Iraq. It has about 879,000 inhabitants, and Erbil Governorate has a

permanent population of 2,009,367 as of 2015.

Human settlement at Erbil may be dated back to the 5th millennium BC, which would make the city one of the oldest continuously inhabited

areas in the world. At the heart of the city is the ancient Citadel of Erbil. The earliest historical reference to the region dates

to the Third Dynasty of Ur of Sumer, when King Shulgi mentioned the city of Urbilum. The city was later conquered by the Assyrians.

Erbil became an integral part of the kingdom of Assyria by the 21st century BC through to the end of the seventh century BC, after it was

captured by the Gutians, and it was known in Assyrian annals variously as Urbilim, Arbela and Arba-ilu. Subsequent to this, it was part of

the geopolitical province of Assyria under several empires in turn, including the Median Empire, the Achaemenid Empire (Achaemenid Assyria)

, Macedonian Empire, Seleucid Empire, Parthian Empire, Roman Assyria and Sasanian Empire , as well as being the capital of the

tributary state of Adiabene between the mid-second century BC and early second century AD.