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Iraq



العراق
عيَراق

العربية [1]العراق - جمهورية العراق


العراق هو احدى الدول العربية الواقعة في المشرق العربي، يقع في جنوب غرب القارة الآسيوية. يقع إلى الشمال من المملكة العربية السعودية، وإلى الجنوب من تركيا، والشرق من سورية و الأردن ، وإلى الغرب من ايران. هناك آراء مختلفة عن اصل كلمة العراق حيث يرجح بعض المستشرقين ان مصدرها هي مدينة أورك السومرية القديمة والتي تسمى الأن بالوركاء وقد ذكرت مدينة أورك في ملحمة گلگامش حيث قام گلگامش ببناء سور حول المدينة و معبد للآلهة عشتار ، يرى البعض الأخر ان العراق مصدرها العروق نسبة الى النهرين دجلة و الفرات اللتين ولاهميتيهما شبهتا بالعرق او الوريد ويرى البعض الأخر انها سميت بالعراق نسبة إلى عروق اشجار النخيل التي تتواجد بكثرة في جنوب و وسط العراق بينما يرى الأخرون ان اصل التسمية هي عراقة المنطقة الموغلة بالقدم

كوردي [2]عيَراق - كۆماری عێراق
English Iraq - Republic of Iraq

The Republic of Iraq is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with ► Kuwait and ► Saudi Arabia to the south, ► Jordan to the west, ► Syria to the northwest, ► Turkey to the north, and ► Iran to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. In the north ► Iraqi Kurdistan has autonomous status.


Short name  Iraq
Official name Republic of Iraq
Status Independent country since 1932
Location Middle East
Capital [3] بغداد (Baghdad)
Population 38,124,182 inhabitants
Area 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi)
Major languages Arabic, Kurdish (both official), Assyrian and Turkmen
Major religions Islam
More information Iraq, Geography of Iraq, History of Iraq and Politics of Iraq
More images Iraq - Iraq (Category).

General maps

Map of Iraq
Map of Iraq
Map of Iraq
Governorates of Iraq
Occupation zones
[[|border|251x400px]] 1980 Tourist Map

Maps of Iraqi Kurdistan

  Location of Iraqi Kurdistan
  Kurdish-speaking area of Iraq
  Map of the Kurdish inhabited areas

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Iraq, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Iraq.

  Fertile Crescent
  Sumerians
  Ancient Mesopotamia
  Akkadian Empire around 2300 BCE
  Akkadian Empire
  The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
  Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
  Neo-Assyrian Empire
  Neo-Babylonian Empire
  Urartu at its greatest extent in the time of Sarduris II, 743 BC
  The Median Empire and Chaldean Empire (728-550 BCE)
  Median Empire
  The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
  The Persian Achaemenid Empire
  The Persian Achaemenid Empire
  The Persian Achaemenid Empire
  The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
  Map of the Empire of Alexander
  Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
  Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
  Hellenistic successor states:
 
Kingdom of Ptolemy
 
Kingdom of Cassander
 
Kingdom of Lysimachus
 
Kingdom of Seleucus
Other states:
 
Rome
  Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
  Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE)
  The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)
  Map of Parthia 100 BC
  Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
  Roman conquest of Minor Asia
  Map of the Roman Empire in 50
  The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
 
133 BC
 
44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
 
AD 14 (death of Augustus)
 
117 (maximum extension)
  Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
  Roman Empire in 117
  Roman Empire in 117
  Indo-Sassanide Empire
  The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
  Sassanide Empire
  Sassanide Empire
  Sassanide Empire
  Expansion of the Muslims
  Age of the Caliphs
  Caliphate around 750
  The region around 1000
  The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
  Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
 
Mongol Empire

By 1294 the empire had split into:

 
Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)
  The Timurid Empire 1405
  The Timurid Empire 1405
  The Persian Safavid Empire (1501-1722/1736)
  The Safavid Empire
  Growth of the Ottoman Empire
  Growth of the Ottoman Empire
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566
  Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
  Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
  Operation Desert Storm
  No Fly Zones
  Approximate area and major clashes in which DU rounds were used
  Iraqi War 2003

Other maps

  Ethnic map of Iraq

Satellite maps

  Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

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  • The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
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  1. Romanization: al-`Irāq - Jumhūriyyat al-`IrāqX.
  2. Romanization: Îraq - Komara `Îraqê.
  3. Romanization: Baġdād.

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