Qaladiza

Qaladiza stands in the Peshdar plain along the upper reaches of the Little Zab. The narrow plain curves between the river and the Zagros mountains to the east. South of the town lie the ancient mounds of Qalat-i Dinka and Gird-i Bazar, remains of a settlement that occupied this river corridor long before the Kurdish town took its present form. The surrounding mountains and watercourses define a route between the plains of northern Iraq and the Iranian highlands.