Qalat Dizah

Qalladze or Qeladize is a City of 140,000 population inside the Kurdistan Regional Government location in Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Sulaymaniyah, near the Iranian border. It is surrounded by means of mountains like many components of Kurdistan. In the south west of the City there is a Castle among rivers. The complete metropolis turned into devastated in the course of the Iran–Iraq War and all citizens had been relocated to Bazian and different components of Iraqi Kurdistan, but most of them in Bazzian, a small city placed west of Sulimanyah. The human beings of Qalladze stayed there till the Kurdish rebellion towards Saddam Hussein's regime in 1991.

Then they came back to their land. The city has endured to extend. A department of the Sulaimania University changed into hooked up there in 1974, but Iraqi authorities attacked it in April 24, 1974. At nine.15am on Wednesday 24 April 1974, Qalladze fell victim to Saddam Hussein first airstrike against the Kurds. It become rumoured that the city attracted the eye of Saddam Hussein because the University of Slemani had temporarily relocated to Qalladze on 1 April 1974 beneath the command of chief Mustafa Barzani who led the Kurdish revolution.