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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 26,783,383 inhabitants
Area 438,317 km²
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

Iraq-CIA WFB Map.png Map of Iraq
Iraq 2004 CIA map.jpg Map of Iraq
Irak karte2.png Map of Iraq
Iraqi Governorates (numbered).png Governorates of Iraq
Iraq 2003 occupation.png Occupation zones
[[|border|251x400px]] 1980 Tourist Map

Maps of Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq (de-facto and disputed hatched).svg Location of Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg Kurdish-speaking area of Iraq
Kurdish-inhabited area by CIA (1992).jpg 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 map.png Fertile Crescent
Sumer1.jpg Sumerians
Mesopotamia.PNG Ancient Mesopotamia
AlterOrient.jpg Akkadian Empire around 2300 BCE
AlterOrient.png Akkadian Empire
Map of Assyria.png The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Deportationofjewsbyassyrian.jpg Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
Carte-Empire néo-assyrien.png Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire.png Neo-Babylonian Empire
Urartu743.png Urartu at its greatest extent in the time of Sarduris II, 743 BC
Median Empire.jpg The Median Empire and Chaldean Empire (728-550 BCE)
Median-empire-600BCE.png Median Empire
Map of the Achaemenid Empire.jpg The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
Achaemenid-empire-500BCE.png The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Carte empire achéménide.png The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Persian Empire, 490 BC.gif The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Map of Armenia and Albania (1760).jpg The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Map-alexander-empire.png Map of the Empire of Alexander
MacedonEmpire.jpg Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Alexander den stores rike, Nordisk familjebok.jpg Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
Diadochen1.png Hellenistic successor states:
   Kingdom of Ptolemy
   Kingdom of Cassander
   Kingdom of Lysimachus
   Kingdom of Seleucus
   Epirus
Other states:
   Rome
Hellenistic world 200BC blank.png Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
Greco-Bactrian kingdom.jpg Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250-125 BCE)
LocationParthia.PNG The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)
Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png Map of Parthia 100 BC
Roman expansion 264 BC Shepherd.jpg Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
Asia minor roman power.jpg Roman conquest of Minor Asia
Roman Empire in 50 BC.png Map of the Roman Empire in 50
Roman Empire.png 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)
Roman Legions camps - AD 80.png Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
Roman empire.png Roman Empire in 117
Roemischeprovinzentrajan.png Roman Empire in 117
Indo-Sassanid.jpg Indo-Sassanide Empire
Sassanid Empire 620.png The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
Carte empire Sassanide.png Sassanide Empire
Sassanides02.png Sassanide Empire
Justinian Byzanz.png Sassanide Empire
Arabische Rijk.jpg Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of Caliphs.png Age of the Caliphs
Califate 750.jpg Caliphate around 750
Iran circa 1000AD.png The region around 1000
Seldschuken-Reich-map.png The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
Mongol Empire map.gif 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)
Mongol dominions.jpg The Timurid Empire 1405
Das Reich Timur-i Lenks (1365-1405).GIF The Timurid Empire 1405
LocationSafavid.PNG The Persian Safavid Empire (1501-1722/1736)
Map Safavid persia.png The Safavid Empire
Ottoman small animation.gif Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman empire 1481-1683.jpg Growth of the Ottoman Empire
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566
Ottoman 1683.png Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
OttomanEmpire1801.jpg Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
Desert Storm Map.svg Operation Desert Storm
Iraq NO FLY ZONES.PNG No Fly Zones
GWI DU map.gif Approximate area and major clashes in which DU rounds were used
Iraq invasion map US Army CMH.jpg Iraqi War 2003

Other maps

Iraq ethno 2003.jpg Ethnic map of Iraq

Satellite maps

Iraq.A2003060.0750.500m.jpg Satellite map

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  1. Romanization: al-`Irāq - Jumhūriyyat al-`IrāqX.
  2. Romanization: Îraq - Komara `Îraqê.
  3. Romanization: Baġdād.

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