Once part of the Ottoman Empire, it became capital of Iraq in 1921
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Iraq - Wikipedia  Iraq officially known as the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:       About this sound ... The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. ... A monarchy was established in 1921 and the Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932. ..... In the late 7th century BC, the Assyrian Empire tore itself apart with a series of brutal...
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Kingdom of Iraq - Wikipedia  The Kingdom of Iraq was founded on 23 August 1921 under British administration following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire ... Capital, Baghdad .... The civil government of postwar Iraq was headed originally by the High ... the condition that the Iraqi government would allow British advisers to take part in government affairs,...
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Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia  The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire was a political event that occurred after World War I and ... The Ottoman Empire's possessions in the Arabian Peninsula became the ... The British and French partitioned the eastern part of the Middle East, also .... During the 1920s and 1930s Iraq, Syria and Egypt moved towards...
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History of Baghdad - Wikipedia  With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Baghdad fell under the British Mandate in 1920 and became the capital of the independent Kingdom of Iraq in 1932...
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History of Iraq - Wikipedia  The territory of the modern state of Iraq was defined in 1920 as Mandatory Iraq. It is centered on ... As part of the larger Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia saw the earliest ... Ottoman rule ended with World War I, and Iraq came to be administered by the .... The city of Baghdad was built in the 8th century and became the capital of...
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The Revival | HISTORY OF IRAQ: FROM BIRTH TILL TODAY  In ancient times the land area now known as modern Iraq was almost ... of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which at any time could unleash devastating floods that .... is still quoted today attests to its importance, is a collection of the laws and edicts ... sources as 1570 or 1595 BC), a Cassite Dynasty was set up in Babylonia.
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Baghdad facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Baghdad is the largest city in Iraq and is situated on both sides of the Tigris River at a point 40 miles from the Euphrates River. ... second caliph of the Abbasid Empire, in 762 c.e. It was to be the administrative capital of the new empire. ... It became a conglomerate of districts on both banks of the Tigris that gained fame and...
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History of Istanbul - Wikipedia  The city today known as Istanbul has been the site of human settlement for approximately three ... Constantinople then became the capital of the Ottoman Empire. ... of Turkey was founded in 1923, the capital was moved from Constantinople to ... city in Turkish and has since replaced the traditional name "Constantinople" in...
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Iraq - Wikipedia  Iraq officially known as the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:       About this sound ... The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. ... After an invasion by the United States and its allies in 2003, Saddam Hussein's .... However, his empire was short-lived, and rapidly collapsed after his death, with both Assyria and southern Iraq,...
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Timeline of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia  This article provides a timeline of the Ottoman Empire. See also Timeline of the Republic of ..... 1924, March 3, Abolition of the Caliphate by Grand National Assembly of Turkey ... Tools. What links here  Related changes  Upload file  Special pages  Permanent link  Page information  Wikidata item  Cite this page...
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Babylon - Wikipedia  Babylon was a major city of ancient Mesopotamia in the fertile plain between the Tigris and ... Babylon grew and South Mesopotamia came to be known as Babylonia. ..... The city became the administrative capital of the Persian Empire and ... with a helipad and other facilities on ancient Babylonian ruins following the Iraq...
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Arabia | Roman province | Britannica.com  Roman province created out of the former kingdom of the Nabataeans and the ... Syrian cities of Gerasa and Philadelphia (modern Jarash and Ammn, Jordan, ... now Bur ash-Shm, Syria) in the extreme north became the capital and ... Roman Empire (in ancient Rome: The early Antonine emperors: Nerva and Trajan)...
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History of Baghdad - Wikipedia  The city of Baghdad (Arabic:      Badd) was founded in the mid 8th century as the Abbasid capital, following the Abbasid victory over the Umayyad Caliphate. It replaced the Sassanid capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon some 35 km to the .... Founder, caliph al-Mansur of the Abbasid caliphate, chose the city's location because...
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Iraq & Kuwait - California State University, Northridge  "Kuwait," the word for "small human settlement," was so named by Iraqi rulers of that era. Throughout the nineteenth century and up to World War I, Kuwait was a ... France and Britain dismantled the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nation for their .... 900 square miles of Iraqi territory by advancing its border with Iraq northward.
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Iraq | history - geography | Britannica.com  Jun 13, 2016 ... ... Iraq were known as Mesopotamia (Land Between the Rivers), ... Iraq's capital, Baghdad, became the capital of the Abbsid Caliphate in the 8th century. ... countries, although the alluvial plains lie largely within Iraq.
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Timeline Iraq thru 1999  9000BC The town of Chemi Shanidar, later part of Iraq, was the largest city of ..... 751CE During a raid into central Asia, the Abbasids captured some Chinese .... 1638 Dec 24, The Ottomans under Murad IV recaptured Baghdad from Safavid Persia. ...... General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sent in...
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Ottoman Empire - Scribd  The Ottoman Empire, also historically referred to as Turkey or the Turkish ... of the state since Seljuq times. some of which were later absorbed into the empire. mostly ... .[8] With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453. it is known as ... [20] Selim I established Ottoman rule in Egypt. the Ottoman Empire entered a...
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Faisal I of Iraq - Wikipedia  Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria ... In 1913, he was elected as representative for the city of Jeddah for the ... Lawrence, who envisioned an independent post-war Arabian state, sought ... In 1919 Emir Faisal led the Arab delegation to the Paris Peace Conference...
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jeopardy/1351_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IRAQ | Initially set up as a monarchy, Iraq became this type of political order in 1958 as its ensuing "Guard" could attest | a republic. right: zgn. Wrong:.
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Ankara - Wikipedia  Ankara formerly known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of the Republic of Turkey. With a .... Now the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia, Ancyra continued to be ..... When Ankara became the capital of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, it was .... Completed in 1953, it is an impressive fusion of ancient and modern...
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Caliphs - All About Turkey  After 1258, and until 1924 there have been several Caliphs, but all of these have ... The Muslim world have never agreed upon uniting behind anyone of these. ... After this there has been several rulers putting up their own Caliph, but the ... With the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan held on to his title of Caliph for two...