The citadel sits on a mound built up from thousands of years of settlement and is counted among the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.
A ring of traditional Ottoman-era houses encloses its lanes and the Kurdish Textile Museum.
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Erbil Citadel
قلعة أربيل
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