Geli Ali Beg Waterfall

{{Short description|Waterfall in Iraq}}

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| caption = Geli Ali Beg Waterfall, 2023

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| location = Kurdistan Region, Iraq, about 130 kilometers north of Erbil

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| type = Named after Yazidi prince Mîr Elî Beg

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File:Geli Eli Beg Panorama.jpg

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Geli Ali Beg Waterfall ({{langx|ku|Geliyê Elî Beg ,گەلیی عەلی بەگ}}){{cite news |title=بۆ گرنگە برادۆست بناسین و بزانین چۆن کراوەتە دیارى بۆ تورکیا؟ |url=https://anfsorani.com/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%A8%DB%86-%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%95-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%86%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86-%DA%86%DB%86%D9%86-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%95%D8%AA%DB%95-%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A8%DB%86-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7-2836 |accessdate=19 December 2019 |work=ANF News |language=ku}}{{cite news |title=Rêya Geliyê Elî Beg bo demekê tê daxistin! |url=http://www.basnews.com/index.php/kr/news/kurdistan/549464 |accessdate=19 December 2019 |date=28 September 2019 |language=ku}} is located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which lies some 130 km north of Erbil.

The waterfall is named after the Yazidi prince, Mîr Elî Beg who was executed by Prince Muhammad of Rawanduz at this valley at the end of 1833 for refusing to convert to Islam.{{Cite journal |last=Ali |first=Majid Hassan |date=2019-11-01 |title=Genocidal Campaigns during the Ottoman Era: The Firmān of Mīr-i-Kura against the Yazidi Religious Minority in 1832–1834 |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.13.1.05 |journal=Genocide Studies International |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=77–91 |doi=10.3138/gsi.13.1.05 |issn=2291-1847}}{{Cite book |last=Allison |first=Christine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WBTVlGe8P8C&q=Eli+beg |title=The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan |date=2001 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-7007-1397-4 |pages=57, 285 |language=en}}

It featured on the 5-dinar note issued 1978–1990.