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In Lebanon, IS also controlled some areas on its border at the height of the Syrian war. In Libya, the group operates mostly as a moving insurgent force, occupying places before abandoning them again. [27] In Egypt, the group controls 910 km 2 of land centered on the small city of Sheikh Zuweid, which represents less than 1% of Egypt's ...
Module:Location map/data/Iraq Mosul is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Mosul. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Kurdistan region of Iraq is an autonomous region in northern Iraq. It borders Iran in the east, ... Population of Mosul Province (1917–1947) [88] Ethnic group
Conquest of Mosul (Nineveh) by Mustafa Pasha in 1631, a Turkish soldier in the foreground holding a severed head. L., C. (Stecher) 1631 -1650 Map of Mosul in 1778, by Carsten Niebuhr What started as irregular attacks in 1517 were finalized in 1538, when Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent added Mosul to his empire by capturing it from his ...
British and Turkish officials met in 1924 but were unable to determine a mutually satisfactory border, and the matter was referred to the League of Nations. [3] In October 1925 the League proposed a border (the ‘Brussels line’) that was essentially the same as that of the northern limits of the old Mosul Vilayet.
The Mosul Vilayet [1] (Arabic: ولاية الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل, romanized: Vilâyet-i Musul) was a first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Baghdad Vilayet in 1878.
The Tigris is heavily dammed in Iraq and Turkey to provide water for irrigating the arid and semi-desert regions bordering the river valley. Damming has also been important for averting floods in Iraq, to which the Tigris has historically been notoriously prone following April melting of snow in the Turkish mountains.
In September 2004 the 167th Corps Support Group, a New Hampshire Army Reserve unit, was deployed to Ibrahim Khalil to monitor the supplies being shipped from supply centers in northern Turkey to coalition forces in Iraq. [3] On 6 December 2015 the border was crossed by ca. 3,000 [4] Turkish soldiers, heading to the Mosul countryside.