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Iraq (Arabic: العراق () al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), officially the Republic of Iraq, is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern 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 a border with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and Iran (Persia) to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. It is considered the place where a settled society to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilization" first appeared in the world - the civilization known as Sumeria.
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There are several suggestions for the origin of the name of Iraq; one dates back to the Sumerian city of Uruk (or Erech). Another suggestion is that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the land along the banks of the southern rivers."
Under the Sassanid dynasty, there was a region called "Iraq Arabi" which referred to the southern part of modern Iraq. Al-Iraq was the name used by the Arabs themselves for the land since the 6th century.
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Iraqi forces searched a home for a suspected terrorist network leader who may have coordinated numerous attacks: http://ow.ly/SGpD
AFPS_Articles (AFPS) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:34:24 -0000
Iraqi forces searched a home for a suspected terrorist network leader who may have coordinated numerous attacks: http://ow.ly/SGpD
MilitaryAvenue: Iraqi Forces Arrest 4 Terror Suspects http://bit.ly/5i2F7z #SOT #fb
MilitaryAvenue (Military Avenue) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:31:37 -0000
MilitaryAvenue: Iraqi Forces Arrest 4 Terror Suspects http://bit.ly/5i2F7z #SOT #fb
R @WOTN American and Iraqi Police Establishing Center for Advanced Policing http://bit.ly/6LSs3P
Ms_Marti (Marti Trussell) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:31:04 -0000
R @WOTN American and Iraqi Police Establishing Center for Advanced Policing http://bit.ly/6LSs3P
RT @BellezaYuuup iraqi weed...? im kinda scared. lmao. â¢don't do it l0l hold on it might be that piff though be carefull l0l
80zOffspring (*Skino*) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:30:42 -0000
RT @BellezaYuuup iraqi weed...? im kinda scared. lmao. •don't do it l0l hold on it might be that piff though be carefull l0l
Bombs in northern Iraqi city kill three: A pair of roadside bombs killed three people in the northern Iraqi cit.. http://bit.ly/6gYxY7
Universat (اÙعاÙÙ Universe news) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:27:07 -0000
Bombs in northern Iraqi city kill three: A pair of roadside bombs killed three people in the northern Iraqi cit.. http://bit.ly/6gYxY7
SOS International, Ltd.: Iraqi Advisors (IRQ) http://bit.ly/16XHar #Jobs #TweetMyJOBS
tmj_irq_jobs (TMJ-IRQ Jobs) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:24:36 -0000
SOS International, Ltd.: Iraqi Advisors (IRQ) http://bit.ly/16XHar #Jobs #TweetMyJOBS
Delights From The Garden Of Eden - Introduction to Iraqi cuisine with sample recipes from the cookbook by Nawal Nasrallah.
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