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Sulaimani's Christian Families (1784-1914) Sulaimani city established on 1784, the original populations came from about (245) Muslim families, and (7) Christian families and some Jewish families (1784-1914) "Abulkhaliq Sabir, Sulaimani Ancient Family Trees 1784-1914, 2nd edition 2010". Names of Christian families based in Sulaimani in the period between (1784-1914): 1. The family of Ibrahim Tapuni 2. The family of Ibrahim - Paulis - Aalaka 3. The family of Toma 4. The family of Shamoon Saraf 5. The family of Qaduri 6. The family of Aamran - shamoon 7. The family of Qaduri

Most of the Jewish families left Sulaimani between the two world wars and the number of Christian families increased to reach about (400) families until the Iraq-Iran begun and the number of families started to decrease up to now. The major immigration of the Sulaimani Christians was at the earlier years of 1990th during the International sanction on Iraq. The current populations of Sulaimani is about 1,850,000 individual and the number of original Christians about (500) individual or about (150) family. A strong relationship ties the Muslim and Christian families in Sulaimani for more than a century and they have been together at the sadness and happiness.