QALATGA
DARBAND
![](qalatgadarband.jpg)
Qalatga
Darband shown within Iraq
![](Qalatga_Darband,_near_Darband-i_Rania,_Sulaymaniyah,_Iraqi_Kurdistan._Lake_Dukan_appears_in_the_background.jpg)
Qalatga
Darband, Lake Dukan appears in the background, September 26, 2019
Location
: Sulaymaniyah
Governorate, Iraq
Region
: Mesopotamia
Coordinates
:
36°12'48.6 N 44°58'38.28 E
Type
: archaeological
site
Qalatga
Darband is an ancient city located in Iraqi Kurdistan, overlooking
Lake Dukan in Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It has been dated to the
Late Hellenistic period or to the transition of Hellinistic-Parthian
period.
The
site has been registered for the first time in the records of the
antiquities general directorate in Baghdad in 1973 by the help of
the Kurdish researcher Abdul Raqeeb Yusef. It was one of the sites
to be surveyed in the region in 2013 by a French mission directed
by Jessica Giraud. In 2016, the British Museum chose the site to
excavate and train the Iraqi archaeologists on archaeology and sites
protection, a program supported by the British government.
Gallery
:
![](640px-Excavations._Parthian_building_at_Qalatga_Darband,_Darband-i_Rania,_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate,_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg)
Parthian
building at Qalatga Darband, September 26, 2019
![](640px-A_Parthian_building_at_Qalatga_Darband,_Darband-i_Rania,_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate,_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg)
Parthian
building at Qalatga Darband, September 26, 2019
![](640px-Excavations,_Parthian_building_at_Qalatga_Darband,_Darband-i_Rania,_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate,_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg)
Parthian
building at Qalatga Darband, September 26, 2019
![](640px-Excavations_unearthing_a_Parthian_building_at_Qalatga_Darband,_Darband-i_Rania,_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate,_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg)
Excavations
unearthing a Parthian building at Qalatga Darband, September 26,
2019
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Qalatga_Darband