Mawet

Mawet lies in the mountains northeast of Sulaymaniyah, near the routes crossing the Zagros toward Iran. In the seventeenth century it served as a centre of the Kurdish Baban principality, before its rulers established their seat at Qala Chwalan. Its position near the Safavid frontier gave the Baban rulers access to country on both sides of the mountains. In 1818 the traveller Robert Ker Porter passed through Mawet while crossing the Zagros toward the Little Zab.