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In order to establish a pro-British client regime, a dynasty of Hashemite kings from the Hejaz region was established, beginning with Faisal I who was the son of Hussein bin Ali. As a family originating in the Hejaz, the Hashemites was foreign to Iraq. The British Government appointed them as Iraq's royal family after a plebiscite in 1921. [1]
The territory of Iraq was under Ottoman dominance until the end of the First World War, becoming an occupied territory under the British military from 1918. In order to transform the region to civil rule, Mandatory Mesopotamia was proposed as a League of Nations Class A mandate under Article 22 and entrusted to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, when the former territories of ...
Aliya bint Ali, queen of Iraq Naqiʾa, Assyrian queen, wife of king Sennacherib and mother to king Esarhaddon. She is lived around 728–669 BC and is known as one of the most powerful women of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. 'Abd al-Ilah (14 November 1913 – 14 July 1958), cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Kingdom of Iraq.
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(Iraq Region) 5 Saddam Hussein صدام حسين (1937–2006) 1995 2002: 16 July 1979 9 April 2003 [5] 23 years, 267 days Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) • Iraqi Governing Council (2003–2004) • — Jay Garner جاي غارنر (born 1938) Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance of Iraq — 21 April 2003 12 ...
King Faisal I of Iraq and King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia. In 1932, the British mandate ended and Faisal was instrumental in making his country independent. On 3 October, the Kingdom of Iraq joined the League of Nations. In August 1933, incidents like the Simele massacre caused tension between the United Kingdom and Iraq.
Modern Iraq was established from the former three Ottoman provinces, Baghdad Vilayet, Mosul Vilayet and Basra Vilayet, which were known as Al-'Iraq. The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret agreement between UK and France with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective sphere of influence and control in West Asia after the expected ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Kings of Iraq (5 P) J. Jalayirids (13 P) P. Presidents of Iraq (4 C, 15 P) Pages in category ...