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History of Iraq
The territory of the modern state of
Iraq
was defined in 1920 as
Mandatory Iraq
. It is centered on
Lower Mesopotamia
(corresponding to historical
Babylonia
, later also known as
ʿIrāq-i ʿArab
) but also includes part of
Upper Mesopotamia
(
Iraqi Kurdistan
) and of the
Syrian Desert
and the
Arabian Desert
.
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