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The Canyon near Rowanduz, Iraqi Kurdistan

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The road seen below is the Hamilton road.

Between 1928 and 1932 Hamilton was the principal engineer of a British-built strategic road across Iraqi Kurdistan, which ran from Erbil, through Rawandiz, to the Iranian border near modern-day Piranshahr. The road became known as the Hamilton Road. Although Hamilton hoped the road would unite the peoples of the region, it has been fought over many times. He described the building of the road in a 1937 book entitled Road through Kurdistan.

 

Submitted: 15/06/2019

Accepted: 16/06/2019

 

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- Morris Cerillo World Evangelis (CALIFORNIA) 05-Sep-2020

- FORMATgerecht GbR (Germany) 26-Aug-2022

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Taken on June 13, 2019