Original sentence: The illustrious  royal house of Adiabene, with Arbil (Arbala in Aramaic, Hewlêr in Kurdish) as its capital, was converted to Judaism in the course of the 1st century BC, along with, it appears, a large number of Kurdish citizens in the kingdom (see Irbil/Arbil in Encyclopaedia Judaica)
Edited sentence: The illustrious Kurdish royal house of Adiabene, with Arbil (Hewlêr in Kurdish) as its capital, was converted to Judaism in the course of the 1st century BC, along with, it appears, a large number of Kurdish citizens in the kingdom (see Irbil/Arbil in Encyclopaedia Judaica)