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Atlas of Iraq

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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 TheRepublic 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 andPolitics of Iraq
More images	Iraq -Iraq (Category).

General maps

Map of Iraq

Governorates of Iraq

Occupation zones

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1980 Tourist Map

Maps of Iraqi Kurdistan

Location of Iraqi Kurdistan

Kurdish-speaking area of Iraq

Map of theKurdish 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

AncientMesopotamia

Akkadian Empire around 2300 BCE

Akkadian Empire

TheAssyrian 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 ofSarduris II, 743 BC

TheMedian Empire andChaldean Empire (728-550 BCE)

Median Empire

TheAchaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent

The Persian Achaemenid Empire

The Expedition ofAlexander 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 ofPtolemy

Kingdom ofCassander

Kingdom ofLysimachus

Kingdom ofSeleucus

Other states:

Hellenistic world in 200 BCE

Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE)

TheParthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)

Map of Parthia 100 BC

Territorial development of theRoman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present

Roman conquest of Minor Asia

Map of theRoman Empire in 50

The extent of theRoman Republic andRoman 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

Indo-Sassanide Empire

The PersianSassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.

Sassanide Empire

Expansion of the Muslims

Age of theCaliphs

Caliphate around 750

The region around 1000

TheSeljuq Empire 1037-1194

Map showing changes in borders of theMongol Empire from founding byGenghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule ofKublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)

Mongol Empire

By 1294 the empire had split into:

Golden Horde

Chagatai Khanate

Ilkhanate

Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)

TheTimurid Empire 1405

The PersianSafavid Empire (1501-1722/1736)

The Safavid Empire

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

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Map of theOttoman Empire 1566

Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683

Map of theOttoman 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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