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$114M in supplementary budget for Sulaimaniya

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: A total of $114 million has been allocated for the supplementary budget of Sulaimaniya province, a member of the provincial council said on Wednesday. “The prime ministry of Kurdistan has decided to approve a 137-billion-dinar ($114 million) supplementary budget for Sulaimaniya,” Kordistan Fareeq Ahmed told IraqiNews.com. An amount of 117 billion Iraqi dinars has been earmarked for this supplementary budget, but was later raised to 137 billion dinars due to the large number of services projects 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 center for Iraqi Kurdistan. SS (S)/SR 1

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