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425 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid civil war (865–866), Abbasid Palace, Abbasid Samarra, Abd al-Ilah, Abdul-Karim Qasim, Abu Disher, Abu Hanifa, Abu Hanifa Mosque, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Adhamiyah, Adhan, Administrative districts in Baghdad, AFN Iraq, Ahmad Jalayir, Akkad (city), Akkadian language, Al Khadhraa, Al Turath University College, Al-A'amiriya, Al-Adel, Al-Amin, Al-Faw Palace, Al-Hebnaa, Al-Hurriya, Baghdad, Al-Jadriya, Al-Jahiz, Al-Jihad (Baghdad), Al-Jumhuriya Street, Al-Kazimiyya Mosque, Al-Khilani Mosque, Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Kindi, Al-Ma'mun, Al-Maidan Square, Al-Mansur, Al-Musta'sim, Al-Mustansir Billah, Al-Mustansir I, Al-Mustansiriya University, Al-Mutanabbi, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaskhun, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Rashid Street, Al-Rashid, Baghdad, Al-Rusafa, Iraq, Al-Sa'adoon, Al-Sa'doun Street, Al-Saydiya, ... Expand index (375 more) »
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- 8th-century establishments in Asia
- Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Middle East
- Capitals of caliphates
- Culture of Iraq
- Populated places on the Tigris River
- Turkmen communities in Iraq
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abbasid civil war (865–866)
The Abbasid civil war of 865–866, sometimes known as the Fifth Fitna, was an armed conflict during the "Anarchy at Samarra" between the rival caliphs al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz, fought to determine who would gain control over the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Abbasid Palace
The Abbasid Palace is an ancient Abbasid complex and an Iraqi historical palace located near the Tigris river on al-Rusafa side of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Abbasid Samarra
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Baghdad and Abbasid Samarra are capitals in Asia.
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Abd al-Ilah
Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz, (عبد الإله; also written Abdul Ilah or Abdullah; 14 November 1913 – 14 July 1958) was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and was regent for his nephew King Faisal II, from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of age.
Abdul-Karim Qasim
Abdul-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli al-Zubaidi (عبد الكريمقاسم; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and nationalist who came to power in 1958 when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown during the 14 July Revolution.
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Abu Disher
Abu Disher, also known as Abu Disheer, is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
Abu Hanifa
Abu Hanifa (translit; September 699–767) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic,Pakatchi, Ahmad and Umar, Suheyl, "Abū Ḥanīfa", in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and, Farhad Daftary.
Abu Hanifa Mosque
The Abu Hanifa Mosque (Masjid Abī hanīfah), also known as the Grand Imam Mosque (Gāmi` al-imām al-aʿẓam), is one of the most prominent Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan
Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (June 2, 1305 – December 1, 1335; ابو سعید بهادر خان), also spelled Abusaid Bahador Khan, Abu Sa'id Behauder (Modern Абу Саид Бахадур хан, Abu sayid Baghatur Khan, in modern Mongolian), was the ninth ruler (c. 1316 – 1335) of the Ilkhanate, a division of the Mongol Empire that encompassed the present day countries of Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia, as well as parts of Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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Adhamiyah
Al-Adhamiyah (translit), also Azamiya, is a neighborhood and east-central district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.
Adhan
The (adhān) is the first Islamic call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin at five times of the day in a mosque, traditionally from a minaret.
Administrative districts in Baghdad
There are nine administrative districts in the city of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, that correspond to the nine district advisory councils.
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AFN Iraq
AFN Iraq was the American Forces Network of radio stations within Iraq.
Ahmad Jalayir
Sultan Ahmad (سلطان احمد جلایر) was the ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate (ruled 1382–1410), he was son to the most accomplished ruler of the sultanate, Shaykh Uways Jalayir.
Akkad (city)
Akkad (also spelt Accad, Akkade, or Agade, Akkadian:, also URIKI in Sumerian during the Ur III period) was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about 150 years in the last third of the 3rd millennium BC.
Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Al Khadhraa
Al Khadhraa is a neighborhood in Mansour district, western Baghdad, Iraq.
Al Turath University College
Al-Turath University (جامعة التراث) is a private Iraqi university and the oldest of such type in Iraq.
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Al-A'amiriya
Al-A'amiriya (Arabic العامرية) is a neighborhood in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, Iraq, on the way to Anbar Province.
Al-Adel
Al-Adel is a Neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Amin
Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid (Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd; April 787 – 24/25 September 813), better known by his laqab of al-Amin (al-Amīn), was the sixth Arab Abbasid caliph from 809 to 813.
Al-Faw Palace
Al-Faw Palace (also known as the Water Palace, lit) is a palace located in Baghdad approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) from the Baghdad International Airport, Iraq.
Al-Hebnaa
Al-Hebnaa is a neighborhood of the Al-Kadhimyah District in northern Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Hurriya, Baghdad
Al-Hurriya city, alternatively Al-Horaya, is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Jadriya
Al-Jadriya is a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq along the Tigris river.
Al-Jahiz
Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (translit), commonly known as al-Jahiz (lit), was an Arabic polymath and author of works of literature (including theory and criticism), theology, zoology, philosophy, grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, philology, linguistics, and politico-religious polemics.
Al-Jihad (Baghdad)
Jihad (Al-Jihad or Hayy Al-Jihad) is a neighborhood (hayy) in the Al Rashid district in western Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Jumhuriya Street
Al-Jumhuriya Street (lit), also known as al-Khulafa Street, is an old avenue located in the center of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Kazimiyya Mosque
Al-Kadhimiyya Mosque (translit) is a Shi'a Islamic mosque and shrine located in the Kādhimiya suburb of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Khilani Mosque
Al-Khilani Mosque (جامع الخلاني) is a historic Shi'ite mosque located in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (محمد بن موسى خوارزمی), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
Al-Kindi
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist.
Al-Ma'mun
Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Harun al-Rashid (Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun (al-Maʾmūn), was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833.
Al-Maidan Square
Al-Maidan Square, also known as just al-Maidan, is an old locality and area located in al-Rusafa district in Baghdad, Iraq, that begins from Bab al-Mu'azzam to al-Rashid Street.
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Al-Mansur
Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور‎; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr (المنصور) was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 CE – 775 CE) succeeding his brother al-Saffah.
Al-Musta'sim
Abu Ahmad Abdallah ibn al-Mustansir bi'llah, better known by his regnal title Al-Mustaʿṣim bi-llāh (المستعصمبالله; 1213 – 20 February 1258), was the 37th and last caliph from the Abbasid dynasty ruling from Baghdad.
Al-Mustansir Billah
Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Mustanṣir biʾllāh (أبو تميممعد المستنصر بالله.‎; 2 July 1029 – 29 December 1094) was the eighth Fatimid Caliph from 1036 until 1094.
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Al-Mustansir I
Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (full name:Abû Ja`far al-Mustansir bi-llah al-Mansûr bin az-Zâhir surname al-Mustansir), (17 February 1192 – 2 December 1242) was the Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty from 1226 to 1242.
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Al-Mustansiriya University
Al-Mustansiriyah University (الجامعة المستنصرية) is a public university located in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Mutanabbi
Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي الكندي; – 23 September 965 AD) from Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate, was a famous Abbasid-era Arabian poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Al-Qaskhun
Al-Qaskhun (from the Persian compound قصه خون qesse khun "storyteller"), also known as al-Hakawati, is a historic occupation regarding a professional narrator that specializes in storytelling in Iraq, most notably Baghdad. Baghdad and al-Qaskhun are culture of Iraq.
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (lit) is an Iraqi sports club based in Rusafa District, Baghdad that competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top-flight of Iraqi football.
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Al-Rashid Street
Al-Rashid Street (Shari' al-Rashīd) is one of the main avenues in downtown Baghdad, Iraq. Baghdad and al-Rashid Street are culture of Iraq.
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Al-Rashid, Baghdad
Al Rasheed or Al Rashid (اَلرَّشِيْد) is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Rusafa, Iraq
Rusafa or Al-Rasafa (Ruṣāfah / Ar-Raṣāfah) is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq, on the eastern side of the River Tigris (on the west side of which is Al-Karkh).
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Al-Sa'adoon
Al-Sa'adoon is a neighborhood in the Rusafa District of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Sa'doun Street
Al-Sa'doun Street or al-Sa'adoun Street (Shari' al-Sa'doun) is one of the main streets Baghdad, Iraq, which connects the districts of al-Rusafa and eastern Karrada and located in al-Sa'doun neighborhood.
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Al-Saydiya
Al-Saydiya (السيدية) is a neighborhood in the Al Rashid district of southwestern Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Shaab Stadium
Al-Shaab International Stadium (lit) is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Shaheed Monument
Al-Shaheed Monument (Nasb al-Shaheed), also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument designed by Iraqi sculptor Ismail Fatah al-Turk and situated in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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Al-Shorta SC
Al-Shorta Sports Club (lit) is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad.
Al-Shu'ala
Al-Shu'ala is a lower middle class district of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Tabari
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.
Al-Talaba SC
Al-Talaba Sports Club (lit) is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad.
Al-Ubedy
Al-Ubedy is a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Washash
Al-Washash is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Wazireya
Al-Wazireya or Waziriyah (Arabic: الوزيرية) is a neighborhood in the Adhamiyah District of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Za'franiya
Al-Za'franiya city (مدينة الزعفرانية) is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Zahawi Café
Al-Zahawi Café is a heritage café located in al-Rasheed Street between al-Maidan Square and Haydar-Khana Mosque near al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Al-Zawraa SC
Al-Zawraa Sports Club (نادي الزوراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District (near Tigris River), Baghdad.
Albayan University
Albayan University (Arabic:جامعة البيان) is a university in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Ali Rıza Pasha (governor of Baghdad)
Ali Rıza Pasha (sometimes spelled Ali Ridha Pasha) led the Ottoman army in 1831 against the mamluk ruler in Baghdad after Dawud Pasha refused to give up his office.
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Alluvium
Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.
Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.
American University of Iraq - Baghdad
The American University of Iraq – Baghdad (AUIB) is a private, not-for-profit university established in 2018.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anglo-Iraqi War
The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assistance from Germany and Italy.
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Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (Ağqoyunlular) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750, (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (White Sheep) (1378–1507) and Qaraoyunlu (Black Sheep).
Arab Air Carriers' Organization
The Arab Air Carriers' Organization (الإتحاد العربي للنقل الجوي) is a non-profit organization with 37 member airlines from 19 countries within North Africa and the Middle East and home-based in country members of the Arab League.
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Arab culture
Arab culture is the culture of the Arabs, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, in a region of the Middle East and North Africa known as the Arab world.
Arab Jibor
Arab Jibor (or Jabour) is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Archaeological looting in Iraq
Archaeological looting in Iraq took place since at least the late 19th century.
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Arson
Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.
Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.
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As-Salam Palace
The as-Salam Palace, previously a home of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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Asiatic lion
The Asiatic lion is a lion population of the subspecies Panthera leo leo.
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was killed by an American drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, while travelling to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Assyrian people
Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.
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Astrology
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent.
Bab Al-Moatham
Bab Al-Moatham (Bab Al-Muadham or Bab Al-Mu'azzam) is a neighborhood of the Rusafa district of Baghdad, Iraq, not far east of the Tigris River.
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Baghdad Airport Road
The Baghdad Airport Road is a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) stretch of highway in Baghdad, Iraq linking the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area at the centre of Baghdad, to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP).
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Baghdad Eyalet
Baghdad Eyalet (Eyālet-i Baġdād) was an Iraqi eyalet of the Ottoman Empire centered on Baghdad.
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Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate (محافظة بغداد Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq.
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Baghdad International Airport
Baghdad International Airport, previously Saddam International Airport from 1982 to 2003, (Maṭār Baġdād ad-Dawaliyy) is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate.
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Baghdad vilayet
The Vilayet of Baghdad (ولاية بغداد; 'Vilâyet-i Bagdad; Modern Turkish: Bağdat Vilâyeti) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in modern-day central Iraq.
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Baghdad Zoo
The Baghdad Zoo is a zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the Al Zawra’a Gardens area along with the Al Zawra’a Dream Park (amusement park) and Zawra'a Tower.
Baghdadi Arabic
Baghdadi Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
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Baghdadi Museum
The Baghdadi Museum (Arabic: المتحف البغدادي) is a local history museum and a tourist landmark located in and about the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Baghdati
Baghdati (tr) is a town of 3,700 people in the Imereti region of western Georgia, at the edge of the Ajameti forest on the river Khanistsqali, a tributary of the Rioni.
Baghlan
Baghlan (Pashto and Dari: بغلان Baġlān) is a city in northern Afghanistan, in the eponymous province, Baghlan Province. Baghdad and Baghlan are Populated places along the Silk Road.
Baghshan
Baghshan (باغشن) is a village in Zeberkhan Rural District of the Central District of Zeberkhan County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.
Bagram
Bagram (Pashto/بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. Baghdad and Bagram are Populated places along the Silk Road.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Baháʼí pilgrimage
A Baháʼí pilgrimage currently consists of visiting the holy places in Acre and Haifa at the Baháʼí World Centre in Northwest Israel.
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Baháʼu'lláh
Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith.
Baiyaa
Al - Bayaa’ (Arabic: البياع) is a lower-middle-class neighborhood in the Al Rashid district in western Baghdad, Iraq, along the Baghdad Airport Road.
Barmakids
The Barmakids (برمکیان Barmakiyân; البرامكة al-BarāmikahHarold Bailey, 1943. "Iranica" BSOAS 11: p. 2. India - Department of Archaeology, and V. S. Mirashi (ed.), Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era vol. 4 of Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, 1955, pp. clxx, 612, 614, 616.), also spelled Barmecides, were an influential Iranian family from Balkh, where they were originally hereditary Buddhist leaders (in the Nawbahar monastery), and subsequently came to great political power under the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad.
Barquq
Al-Malik Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq (الملك الظاهر سيف الدين برقوق; born) was the first Sultan of the Circassian Mamluk Burji dynasty of Egypt ruling from 1382 to 1389 and 1390 to 1399.
Basra
Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq. Baghdad and Basra are cities in Iraq.
Battle of Baghdad (2003)
The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq.
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Battle of Baghdad (946)
The Battle of Baghdad (946 AD) was fought between the forces of the Buyid Emirate of Iraq under Mu'izz al-Dawla and the Hamdanid Emirate of Mosul under Nasir al-Dawla within the city of Baghdad.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
Bosch (company)
Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Brazilian Café
The Brazilian Café was an old well-known coffeehouse in Baghdad, Iraq, that was notable for its European style and significant artistic legacy.
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British Iraqis
British Iraqis are British citizens who originate from Iraq.
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Bundestag
The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament and the lower of two federal chambers, opposed to the upper chamber, the Bundesrat.
Buyid dynasty
The Buyid dynasty (Âl-i Bōya), also spelled Buwayhid (Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Zaydi and, later, Twelver Shia dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over central and southern Iran and Iraq from 934 to 1062.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people. Baghdad and Cairo are capitals of caliphates.
Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
Capture of Baghdad (1394)
The Capture of Baghdad by the Egyptian Mamluk sultan Barquq and Jalayirid sultan Ahmad Jalayir.
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Capture of Baghdad (1534)
The 1534 capture of Baghdad by Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire from the Safavid dynasty under Tahmasp I was part of the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1532 to 1555, itself part of a series of Ottoman–Persian Wars.
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Capture of Baghdad (1624)
The Capture of Baghdad (1624) by the Safavid army under Abbas the Great occurred on 14 January 1624, which was part of the ongoing war between Sultan Murad IV against Shah Abbas I.
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Capture of Baghdad (1638)
The recapture of Baghdad was the second conquest of the city by the Ottoman Empire as a part of the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Baghdad and Córdoba, Spain are capitals of caliphates.
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Central Bank of Iraq
The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI; البنك المركزي العراقي) is the national bank of Iraq.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
Christianity in Iraq
The Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world.
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Church of the East
The Church of the East (''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā''.) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Nicene Eastern Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, alongside the Miaphisite churches (which came to be known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches) and the Chalcedonian Church (whose Eastern branch would later become the Eastern Orthodox Church).
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Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
Coalition of the Gulf War
On 29 November 1990, the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 authorized the assembly of a multinational military coalition to fight against Iraq in the Gulf War.
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Coalition Provisional Authority
The Coalition Provisional Authority (translit; translit, CPA) was a transitional government of Iraq established following the invasion of the country on 19 March 2003 by U.S.-led Coalition forces.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.
Commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.
Creative Cities Network
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) is a flagship city programme of UNESCO launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which have recognized culture and creativity as strategic drivers of sustainable urban development.
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Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon (𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn; تیسفون; Κτησιφῶν,; ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢThomas A. Carlson et al., “Ctesiphon — ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified July 28, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/58.) was an ancient Mesopotamian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about southeast of present-day Baghdad. Baghdad and Ctesiphon are Populated places along the Silk Road.
Da'i
A da'i (inviter, caller) is generally someone who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam.
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Damage to Baghdad during the Iraq War
The Iraq War started with a US-led invasion on 20 March 2003, causing much damage to the capital city, Baghdad.
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Death threat
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.
Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
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Dijlah University College
Dijlah University College is a general university in Iraq.
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DjVu
DjVu (like French "déjà vu") is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.
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Dora, Baghdad
Dora (also al-Dura, or ad-Durah, الدورة) is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Baghdad and Dora, Baghdad are Assyrian communities in Iraq.
Dust storm
A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Embrasure
An embrasure (or crenel or crenelle; sometimes called gunhole in the domain of gunpowder-era architecture) is the opening in a battlement between two raised solid portions (merlons).
Emilie Savage-Smith
Emilie Savage-Smith (born 20 August 1941) is an American-British historian of science known for her work on science in the medieval Islamic world and medicine in the medieval Islamic world.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopædia Iranica
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
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Esplanade
An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Fairuz
Nouhad Wadie Haddad (Nuhād Wadīʿ Ḥaddād,; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz (Fayrūz), is a Lebanese singer.
Faisal II
Faisal II (translit; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq.
Falastin Street
Palestine Street or Falastin Street (شارع فلسطين) is a street located in eastern Baghdad, Iraq.
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Farhud
(translit) was the pogrom or the "violent dispossession" that was carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941, immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. Baghdad and Farhud are anti-Jewish pogroms in the Middle East.
Fars province
Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.
Fatimid Caliphate
The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.
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Ferris wheel
A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.
Feyli (tribe)
Feylis (Feylî), also known as Feyli Kurds, is a Kurdish tribe based in the borderlands between Iraq and Iran.
Firdos Square
Al-Firdos Square (Sāḥat al-Firdaus) is a public open space in central Baghdad, Iraq.
Firdos Square statue destruction
On April 9, 2003, during the US invasion of Iraq, a large statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was destroyed by Iraqi civilians and United States Marines.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) (بنك أبوظبي الأول) is the largest bank in the United Arab Emirates.
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Firuzabad, Fars
Firuzabad (فيروزآباد) is a city in the Central District of Firuzabad County, Fars province, Iran, serving as both capital of the district and of the county.
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Fly Baghdad
Fly Baghdad is a private Iraqi airline, headquartered in Baghdad, with flights based at Baghdad International Airport.
Garden of Eden
In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.
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Gates of Baghdad
The gates of Baghdad (أبواب بغداد) are the several bab, meaning gate in Arabic, connected by walls surrounding the city of Baghdad.
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Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
George Modelski
George Modelski was Professor of political science in the University of Washington.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.
Ghazaliya
Ghazaliya (Arabic: الغزالية) is a neighborhood in the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, in the city's Mansour district.
Ghaznavids
The Ghaznavid dynasty (غزنویان Ġaznaviyān) or the Ghaznavid Empire was a Persianate Muslim dynasty and empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruling at its greatest extent from the Oxus to the Indus Valley from 977 to 1186.
Glacis
A glacis in military engineering is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses.
Google Questions and Answers
Google Questions and Answers (Google Otvety, Google Ответы) was a free knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to collaboratively find good answers, through the web, to their questions (also referred as Google Knowledge Search).
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Governorates of Iraq
Iraq consists of 18 recognized governorates (muḥāfażah; parêzgeh), also known as "provinces" and 1 partially recognized governorate (Halabja).
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Graeco-Arabic translation movement
The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic.
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Grand Festivities Square
Great Celebrations square (Sahat al-Ahtifalat al-Kubra) is the main square for public celebrations in Baghdad with a stadium for the heads of the state in the center of the Parade avenue.
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Greater Khorasan
Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.
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Green Zone
The Green Zone (translit) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad.
Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Haifa Street
Haifa Street (شارع حيفا) is a two-mile-long street in Baghdad, Iraq, named after the port city of Haifa.
Hammam
A hammam (translit, hamam), called a Moorish bath (in reference to the Muslim Spain of Al-Andalus) and a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world.
Hanbali school
The Hanbali school or Hanbalism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Haydar-Khana
Haydar-Khana is an old locality and neighborhood located in Baghdad, Iraq.
Haydar-Khana Mosque
The Haydar-Khana Mosque (جامع الحيدرخانة) is a historic mosque located near al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, built by al-Nasir during the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Hayy Al-A'amel
Hayy Al-A'amel (also written Amel or Amil) is a neighborhood (hayy) in the Al Rashid district of southwestern Baghdad, Iraq.
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Hayy Al-Shurtta
Hayy Al-Shurtta is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the Al Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Hayy Ur
Hayy Ur is a neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, Iraq, near Sadr city.
Hisham N. Ashkouri
Hisham N. Ashkouri (هشامأشكري, born August 15, 1948) is a Boston and New York-based architect.
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Historical urban community sizes
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.
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History of Baghdad (1831–1917)
In the history of Baghdad, the period from 1831 to 1917 began with the fall of the Mamluk state of Iraq in 1831 after the Ottoman Empire occupied the city.
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History of the Jews in Baghdad
According to Arab tradition, the town of Baghdad was founded in the middle of the eighth century by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur.
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Honeywell
Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
House of Wisdom
The House of Wisdom (بَيْت الْحِكْمَة), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad.
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Hulegu Khan
Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulaguᠬᠦᠯᠡᠭᠦ|lit.
Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; (808–873), known in Latin as Johannitius, was an influential Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhti, and Thābit ibn Qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical Greek and Persian texts into Arabic and Syriac.
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Hyundai Rotem
Hyundai Rotem Co. is a South Korean company that manufactures rolling stock, defense products and plant equipment.
Ibad
The ʿIbād or ʿEbād were a Christian Arab group within the city of al-Ḥīra (Ḥirtā) during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Sasanian Empire and later the Caliphate.
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Ibn Battuta
Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.
Ilham al-Madfai
Ilham al-Madfai (إلهامالمدفعي) (born 1942) is an Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer.
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Ilkhanate
The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.
Imamate in Shia doctrine
In Shia Islam, the Imamah (إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.
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Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.
International school
An international school is an institution that promotes education in an international environment or framework.
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Investment in post-invasion Iraq
Investment in post-2003 Iraq refers to international efforts to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq since the Iraq War in 2003.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
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Iraq Museum
The Iraq Museum (المتحف العراقي) is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad.
Iraq National Library and Archive
The Iraq National Library and Archive (INLA; دار الكتب والوثائق العراقية, Dār al-Kutub wa al-Wathā’iq al-‘Irāqiyyah) is the national library and national archives of Iraq.
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Iraq National Oil Company
The Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) was founded in 1966 by the Iraqi government.
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Iraq Stars League
The Iraq Stars League (Dawrī Nujūm Al-'Irāq), is the highest level of the Iraqi football league system.
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Iraq War
The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
Iraqi Airways
Iraqi Airways Company (translit), operating as Iraqi Airways, is the national carrier of Iraq, headquartered on the grounds of Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad.
Iraqi Armenians
Iraqi Armenians (أرمنيون عراقيون ’Armanion Iraqion; Armenian: իրաքահայեր irakahayer) are Iraqi citizens and residents of Armenian ethnicity.
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Iraqi art
Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present day Iraq since ancient Mesopotamian periods.
Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict from 2006 to 2008 between various sectarian Shia and Sunni armed groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Mahdi Army, in addition to the Iraqi government alongside American-led coalition forces.
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Iraqi Ground Forces
The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), also referred to as the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces.
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Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in violent conflict with the central government, as well as low-level sectarian violence among Iraq's religious groups.
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Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra
The Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra (INSO) began as the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra in 1944.
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Iraqi National Theatre
The National Theatre in Iraq was opened during the Saddam Hussein era and closed during the 2003 Iraq War.
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Iraqi Turkmen
The Iraqi Turkmen (also spelled as Turkoman and Turcoman; Irak Türkmenleri), also referred to as Iraqi Turks, Turkish-Iraqis, the Turkish minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi-Turkish minority (translitIrāq; Irak Türkleri) are Iraq's third largest ethnic group.
Iraqi University
The Iraqi University (Al Iraqia University) offers bachelor's and graduate university degrees.
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Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Islamic Golden Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.
Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.
Ismail Fatah Al Turk
Ismail Fatah Al-Turk ("Ismail Fatah") (1934 or 1938–2004) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Basra, Iraq, noted for his abstract art, monumental sculpture, and public works and as part of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which fostered a sense of national identity.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. Baghdad and Istanbul are capitals of caliphates and Populated places along the Silk Road.
Jalayirid Sultanate
The Jalayirid Sultanate was a dynasty of Mongol Jalayir origin, which ruled over modern-day Iraq and western Iran after the breakup of the Mongol khanate of Persia in the 1330s.
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Jamia
Jamia (جامعة jāmi‘a; also jamiya) is the Arabic word for gathering.
January 2021 Baghdad bombings
The January 2021 Baghdad bombings were a pair of terrorist attacks that occurred on 21 January 2021, carried out by two suicide bombers at an open-air market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ארמית) was the form of Middle Aramaic employed by writers in Lower Mesopotamia between the fourth and eleventh centuries.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Jisr Diyala
Jisr Diyala (Arabic: جسر ديالى)is a southeastern neighborhood of Karrada District, Baghdad, Iraq.
Kadhimiya
Kadhimiya (el-Kâzımiyye) or Kadhimayn (ٱلْكَاظِمَيْن) is a northern neighbourhood of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.
Karkh
Al-Karkh or just Karkh (Arabic: الكرخ) is historically the name of the western half of Baghdad, Iraq, or alternatively, the western shore of the Tigris River as it ran through Baghdad.
Karrada
Karrada (كرّادة Karrāda) is an upper-class district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.
Kaza
A kaza (قضا, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Khorasan province
Khorasan (استان خراسان; also transcribed as Khurasan, Xorasan and Khorassan), also called Traxiane during Hellenistic and Parthian times, was a province in northeastern Iran until September 2004, when it was divided into three new provinces: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan.
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Khutbah
Khutbah (خطبة, khuṭbah; خطبه, khotbeh; hutbe) serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition.
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.
Kingdom of Iraq
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (translit) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is the central religious text of the Baháʼí Faith, written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873.
Kufa
Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf. Baghdad and Kufa are capitals of caliphates.
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Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties
The Lancet, one of the oldest scientific medical journals in the world, published two peer-reviewed studies on the effect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation on the Iraqi mortality rate.
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Lawrence Anthony
Lawrence Anthony (17 September 1950 – 2 March 2012) was a South African conservationist, environmentalist, explorer and author.
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Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
Leo (astrology)
Leo (Léōn, Latin for "lion") is the fifth sign of the zodiac.
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Levee
A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.
Liberation Square, Baghdad
Liberation Square or al-Tahrir Square (ساحة التحرير), originally known as Queen Alia Square is a square located in central Baghdad at the intersection of al-Sa'doun Street and al-Jumhuriya Bridge road.
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List of largest cities in the Arab world
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League.
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List of largest cities of Iraq
This article shows a list of largest cities and towns in Iraq. Baghdad and list of largest cities of Iraq are cities in Iraq.
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List of mosques in Baghdad
Baghdad, located in Iraq, was once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and a center of Islamic advancements.
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List of neighborhoods and districts in Baghdad
This article lists neighborhoods and the nine administrative districts within 50 km of Baghdad, Iraq.
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List of places in Iraq
This is a list of places in Iraq.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of World Heritage Sites in Iraq
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Low-intensity conflict
A low-intensity conflict (LIC) is a military conflict, usually localised, between two or more state or non-state groups which is below the intensity of conventional war.
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Mahmoudiyah, Iraq
Mahmoudiyah (المحمودية) (also transliterated Al-Mahmudiyah, Al-Mahmoudi, or Al-Mahmudiya, prefixed usually with Al-) is a rural city south of Baghdad.
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Mamluk dynasty (Iraq)
The Mamluk dynasty of Mesopotamia (Mamālīk al-ʻIrāq) was a dynasty of Georgian Mamluk origin which ruled over Iraq in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Mandaeans
Mandaeans (المندائيون), also known as Mandaean Sabians (الصابئة المندائيون) or simply as Sabians (الصابئة), are an ethnoreligious group who are followers of Mandaeism.
Mandaeism
Mandaeism (Classical Mandaic), sometimes also known as Nasoraeanism or Sabianism, is a Gnostic, monotheistic and ethnic religion with Greek, Iranian, and Jewish influences. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. Mandaeans consider Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem and John the Baptist prophets, with Adam being the founder of the religion and John being the greatest and final prophet.
Mandate for Mesopotamia
The Mandate for Mesopotamia (al-Intidāb ʿalā Bilād mā bayn an-Nahrayn) was a proposed League of Nations mandate to cover Ottoman Iraq (Mesopotamia).
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Mansour district
Al-Mansour or just Mansour (المنصور) is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Martin Gilbert
Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
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Mashallah ibn Athari
Māshāʾallāh ibn Atharī (ما شاء الله إبن أثري), known as Mashallah, was an 8th century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.
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Mashrabiya
A mashrabiya or mashrabiyya (مشربية) is an architectural element which is characteristic of traditional architecture in the Islamic world and beyond.
Mayor–council government
A mayor–council government is a system of local government in which a mayor who is directly elected by the voters acts as chief executive, while a separately elected city council constitutes the legislative body.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Mehmed Namık Pasha
Mehmed Emin Namık Pasha (1804 – 1892) was an Ottoman statesman and military reformer, who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern Ottoman Army.
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Mehrdad
Mehrdad (مهرداد) is a common Persian male given name in Iran and other Persian speaking countries.
Merlon
A merlon is the solid upright section of a battlement (a crenellated parapet) in medieval architecture or fortifications.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
Metropolis
A metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural area for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
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Mithra
Mithra (𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 Miθra, 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Miθra), commonly known as Mehr or Mithras among Romans, is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oath, justice, the sun, contracts, and friendship.
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad
The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (naṣb al-jundiyyi al-majhūli) is a monument in central Baghdad built by Italian architect based on a concept by Iraqi sculptor Khaled al-Rahal and constructed between 1979 and 1982.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
Mosul
Mosul (al-Mawṣil,,; translit; Musul; Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. Baghdad and Mosul are Assyrian communities in Iraq, cities in Iraq, Populated places on the Tigris River and Turkmen communities in Iraq.
Mu'tazilism
Mu'tazilism (translit, singular translit) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basra and Baghdad.
Muhammad al-Taqi
Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il (translit), commonly known as Muhammad al-Taqi (lit), was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Ahmad al-Wafi.
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Multi-National Force – Iraq
The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF–I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of the ensuing Iraq War, led by the United States of America (Operation Iraqi Freedom), United Kingdom (Operation Telic), Australia, Italy (Operation Ancient Babylon), Spain and Poland, responsible for conducting and handling military operations.
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Musa al-Kazim
Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam.
Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
Mustansiriya Madrasah
Al-Mustansiriya Madrasa was a medieval-era scholarly complex that provided a universal system of higher education.
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Mutanabbi Street
Al-Mutanabbi Street (Arabic: شارع المتنبي) is located in Baghdad, Iraq, near the old quarter of Baghdad; at al-Rashid Street.
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Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.
Nahrain University
Nahrain University (Arabic: جامعة النهرين), also known as Al-Nahrain University, is a coeducational public university established in 1987 and located in Baghdad, Iraq.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Naubakht
Nobakht Ahvazi (نوبخت اهوازى), also spelled Naubakht Ahvaz and Naubakht, along with his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province, Iran) who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries AD.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
New Baghdad
New Baghdad or Baghdad Al-Jidida (بغداد الجديدة) is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq.
New Persian
New Persian (translit), also known as Modern Persian (فارسی نوین) is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings.
New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Nezamiyeh
The Nezamiyeh (نظامیه) or Nizamiyyah (النظامیة) are a group of institutions of higher education established by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk in the eleventh century in Iran.
Nihonjin gakkō
, also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan intended primarily for Japanese citizens living abroad.
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Nizam al-Mulk
Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi (April 10, 1018 – October 14, 1092), better known by his honorific title of Nizam ul-Mulk (lit), was a Persian scholar, jurist, political philosopher and vizier of the Seljuk Empire.
Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (نزار توفيق قباني,, Nizar Kabbani; 21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet, writer and publisher.
Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)
The Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) began on 4 June 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, assisted by various insurgent groups in the region, began a major offensive from its territory in Syria into Iraq against Iraqi and Kurdish forces, following earlier clashes that had begun in December 2013 involving guerillas.
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Nuri al-Said
Nuri Pasha al-Said CH (نوري السعيد; December 1888 – 15 July 1958) was an Iraqi politician during the Mandatory Iraq and the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.
Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)
The Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011.
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Oghuz Turks
The Oghuz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire).
One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555)
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1532–1555 was one of the many military conflicts fought between the two arch rivals, the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent, and the Safavid Empire led by Tahmasp I.
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Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639)
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639 was a conflict fought between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, then the two major powers of Western Asia, over control of Mesopotamia.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paradise
In religion, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss.
Paul Bremer
Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30, 1941) is a retired American diplomat.
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
Persian Jews
Persian Jews or Iranian Jews (یهودیان ایرانی; יהודים פרסים) constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora.
Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Power vacuum
In political science and political history, the term power vacuum, also known as a power void, is an analogy between a physical vacuum to the political condition "when someone in a place of power, has lost control of something and no one has replaced them." The situation can occur when a government has no identifiable central power or authority.
Price of oil
The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus, and Western Canadian Select (WCS).
Pyongyang
Pyongyang (Hancha: 平壤, Korean: 평양) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution". Baghdad and Pyongyang are capitals in Asia.
Qara Qoyunlu
The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (Qaraqoyunlular,; قره قویونلو), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman "Kara Koyunlu, also spelled Qara Qoyunlu, Turkish Karakoyunlular, English Black Sheep, Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468." "Better known as Turkomans...
Qasem Soleimani
Qasem Soleimani (translit; 11 March 19573January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Qushla
The Qushla or The Qishleh (Arabic: القشلة) is an Ottoman site in Baghdad, Iraq.
Raghiba Khatoun
Raghiba Khatoun is a neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (Al-Gailani)in Arab standard pronunciation Rashid Aali al-Kaylani; also transliterated as Sayyid Rashid Aali al-Gillani, Sayyid Rashid Ali al-Gailani or sometimes Sayyad Rashid Ali el Keilany ("Sayyad" serves to address higher standing male persons) (رشيد عالي الکَيلاني) (1892 – 28 August 1965) was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq on three occasions: from March to November 1933, from March 1940 to February 1941 and from April to May 1941.
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Regent
In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
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Reuven Snir
Reuven Snir (ראובן שניר; born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish academic, Professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Haifa, Dean of Humanities, and a translator of poetry between Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
Round city of Baghdad
The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766 CE as the official residence of the Abbasid court. Baghdad and Round city of Baghdad are culture of Iraq.
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Sabur ibn Ardashir
Abu Nasr Baha al-Din Sabur ibn Ardashir (ابونصر بهاء الدين شاپور بن اردشیر; also spelled Shapur) was a Persian statesman who served as the vizier of the Buyids of Iraq five times between 990/1 to 1000.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
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Sadr City
Sadr City (translit), formerly known as Al-Thawra (aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Madīnat Ṣaddām), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.
Safavid Iran
Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.
Salah Al-Hamdani
Salah Al-Hamdani (صلاح الحمداني), born in 1951 in Baghdad, is an Iraqi poet, actor, and playwright.
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SalamAir
SalamAir (Ṭayarān as-salām) is a low-cost airline from Oman headquartered and based at Muscat International Airport.
Salman Pak
Salman Pak (سَلْمَان بَاك, سلمان پاک|Solomon the Pure) is a city located approximately south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris. Baghdad and Salman Pak are cities in Iraq.
Salman the Persian
Salman al-Farsi (سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ) was a Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Muhammad.
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Sarbadars
The Sarbadars (from سربدار sarbadār, "head on gallows"; also known as Sarbedaran سربداران) were a mixture of religious dervishes and secular rulers that came to rule over part of western Khurasan in the midst of the disintegration of the Mongol Ilkhanate in the mid-14th century (established in 1337).
Sargon of Akkad
Sargon of Akkad (𒊬𒊒𒄀|Šarrugi), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Saudi National Bank
Saudi National Bank (SNB), also known as SNB AlAhli (البنك الأهلي السعودي), formerly known as The National Commercial Bank (NCB), is the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia.
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Seleucia
Seleucia (Σελεύκεια), also known as or or Seleucia ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city, located on the west bank of the Tigris River within the present-day Baghdad Governorate in Iraq. Baghdad and Seleucia are Populated places along the Silk Road.
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
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Seljuk dynasty
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.
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Sha'ab, Baghdad
Sha'ab (الشعب) is a neighborhood of Adhamiyah district, Baghdad, Iraq, It is subdivided into Sha'ab east (22nd), Sha'ab south (23rd), Sha'ab north (24th).
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Shabaks
Shabaks (الشبك; translit) are a group with a disputed ethnic origin.
Shia Islam in Iraq
Shia Islam in Iraq (الشيعة في العراق) has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first imam of Shia Islam and fourth caliph of Sunni Islam who moved the capital of the early caliphate from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad.
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Shiraz
Shiraz (شیراز) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars and Persis.
Siege of Baghdad
The siege of Baghdad took place in early 1258 at Baghdad, the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Siege of Baghdad (1157)
The siege of Baghdad in 1157 was the last Seljuq attempt to capture Baghdad from the Abbasids.
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Siege of Baghdad (812–813)
The siege of Baghdad was a part of a civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Sinan Al Shabibi
Sinan Al-Shabibi (سنان الشبيبي.; 1 July 1941 – 8 January 2022) was an Iraqi economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from September 2003 to October 2012.
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Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center
The Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center is located in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.
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St. Gregory Armenian Church
The St.
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Suicide attack
A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.
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Sultan
Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Syriac Christianity
Syriac Christianity (ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ / Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto or Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā) is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language.
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Tafsir
Tafsir (tafsīr; Explanation) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran.
Taxi
A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Tehran
Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province. Baghdad and Tehran are capitals in Asia and Populated places along the Silk Road.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Journal of Architecture
The Journal of Architecture is a peer-reviewed academic journal published eight times a year by Routledge on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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The Music and Ballet School of Baghdad
The Music and Ballet School of Baghdad (مدرسة بغداد للموسيقى و الباليه) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq in 1967.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Nuttall Encyclopædia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers.
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Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
Times Books
Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.
Timur
Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 133617–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.
Trade Bank of Iraq
Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI; المصرف العراقي للتجارة) was established on the 17th of July 2003 to facilitate Iraq's domestic and international trade dealings once the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme ended in 2003.
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Tughril I
Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman"The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Twelver Shi'ism
Twelver Shīʿism (ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة), also known as Imāmiyya (إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas.
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Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title ("Star of the Orient"). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid".
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
University of Baghdad
The University of Baghdad (UOB) (جامعة بغداد, also known as Baghdad University) is a public research university in Baghdad, Iraq.
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States.
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University of Oklahoma Press
The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.
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University of Technology, Iraq
The University of Technology, Iraq is one of Iraq's largest universities.
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Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
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Victory Arch
The Victory Arch (Qaws an-Naṣr), officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq.
War in Iraq (2013–2017)
The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State.
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Wasit
Wasit (Wāsiṭ, ܘܐܣܛ) was an early Islamic city in Iraq.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Yarmouk, Baghdad
Yarmouk (Arabic, اليرموك) is an upmarket neighborhood (67th) located within Mansour district in Baghdad, Iraq, and adjacent to Baghdad Airport Road.
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Yazidis
Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (translit), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
Yazidism
Yazidism, also known as Sharfadin, is a monotheistic ethnic religion that originated in Kurdistan and has roots in a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects is British architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), with its main office situated in Clerkenwell, London.
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Zayouna
Zayouna (زيونة) is a neighbourhood of east Baghdad, Iraq.
Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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14 July Revolution
The 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi military coup, was a coup d'état that took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq which resulted in the toppling of King Faisal II and the overthrow of the Hashemite-led Kingdom of Iraq.
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1941 Iraqi coup d'état
The 1941 Iraqi coup d'état (ثورة رشيد عالي الكيلاني, Thawrah Rašīd ʿAlī al-Kaylānī), also called the Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani coup or the Golden Square coup, was a nationalist coup d'état in Iraq on 1 April 1941 that overthrew the pro-British regime of Regent 'Abd al-Ilah and his Prime Minister Nuri al-Said and installed Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2018 Baghdad bombings
On Monday January 15, 2018, two suicide bombings took place at al-Tayaran Square of Baghdad, killing 36 people and injuring more than 105 others.
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See also
762 establishments
- Baghdad
- Schäftlarn Abbey
8th-century establishments in Asia
- Baghdad
- Könchogsum Lhakhang
- Kadisoka
- Kailasa Temple, Ellora
- Middle Tamil
- Nechung Oracle
- Principality of Farghana
Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Middle East
- 1517 Safed attacks
- 1945 anti-Jewish riots in Egypt
- 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aden
- 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo
- 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Manama
- 1948 Cairo bombings
- 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack
- Allahdad
- Baghdad
- Damascus affair
- Farhud
- Jerusalem riots of 66
- Shiraz pogrom
Capitals of caliphates
- Baghdad
- Baradān
- Córdoba, Spain
- Cairo
- Damascus
- Hdatta
- Istanbul
- Kufa
- Mecca
- Medina
- Merv
- Nishapur
- Raqqa
- Samarra
Culture of Iraq
- Al-Qaskhun
- Al-Rashid Street
- Assyrian culture
- Baghdad
- British Institute for the Study of Iraq
- Culture of Iraq
- Destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State
- Duhok International Film Festival
- Hashimi Dress
- Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies
- Iraqi cuisine
- Iraqi map pendant
- Khatam
- Kuphar
- Kurdish culture
- Languages of Iraq
- Maddahi
- Mashoof
- Mass media in Iraq
- Mheibes
- National symbols of Iraq
- Public holidays in Iraq
- Religion in Iraq
- Round city of Baghdad
- Shahmaran
- Sidara
- Smoking in Iraq
- Sport in Iraq
- Tarada
- Thieves of Baghdad
Populated places on the Tigris River
- Al-Awja
- Amarah
- Baghdad
- Baiji (city)
- Batman, Turkey
- Bismil
- Cizre
- Diyarbakır
- Eski Mosul
- Faysh Khabur
- Hasankeyf
- Mosul
- Qayyarah
- Samarra
- Sultan Abdullah, Iraq
- Tikrit
- Zummar
Turkmen communities in Iraq
- Altun Kupri
- Amirli
- Badra, Iraq
- Baghdad
- Bashir, Iraq
- Daquq
- Erbil
- Jalawla
- Khanaqin
- Kifri
- Kirkuk
- Makhmur, Iraq
- Mandali, Iraq
- Miqdadiyah
- Mosul
- Nineveh Plains
- Qara Tapa
- Sadiyah
- Shaikh Ibrahim, Iraq
- Sinjar
- Sulaiman Bek
- Tal Afar
- Tal Banat
- Taza Khurmatu
- Tuz Khurmatu
- Yankjah
References
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