Arbil (also written Erbil, or Irbil) (Akkadian: Arba-ilu; Arbīl; Aramaic: ܐܪܒܝܠ Arbela; Kurdish: Hewlêr; Sumerian: Urbilum) is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul. The city lies eighty kilometres (fifty miles) east of Mosul, and is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan (...) (from Wikipedia)