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Revision as of 22:51, 30 January 2011
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Parent topics
- Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
Subtopics
Geography
- Tigris River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Euphrates River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Baghdad [r]: An ancient Persian city on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; the capital of modern day Iraq. [e]
- Basra [r]: Major city in south Iraq; the otherwise landlocked country's only port [e]
Formation of modern Iraq
- Ottoman Empire [r]: An empire, informally the Turkish Empire, that dominated most of the Middle East from the 14th to early 20th century. [e]
- Gertrude Bell [r]: (1868-1926) British expert on the Middle East, involved in strategic intelligence for the Arab Revolt (First World War) and had a major influence on the formation of modern Iraq. [e]
- Percy Cox [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hashemites [r]: A family that traces its lineage to the household of the Prophet Muhammad and back to the Old Testament prophet Abraham, which is a major part of Middle East history and politics; the ruling dynasty of Jordan is Hashemite [e]
Ba'ath rule
- Saddam Hussein [r]: (1937–2006) Deposed and executed ruler of Iraq. [e]
- Iran-Iraq War [r]: War between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988, with very high casualties on both sides, but an inconclusive result [e]
- Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein, who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). [e]
- Iran [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Jordan [r]: An Arab country of the Middle East, landlocked and bordered by Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the West Bank of Palestine [e]
- Kuwait [r]: Country on the Persian Gulf bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south; population of 2.5 million. [e]
- Saudi Arabia [r]: A country in the Middle East, governed by a monarchy under Islamic law, which includes the most revered sites in Islam, and also dominates the world's oil economy. [e]
- Syria [r]: Country in the Middle East, facing the Mediterranean Sea, and sharing borders with Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. [e]
- Turkey [r]: A secular Islamic republic (population 71.9 million; capital Ankara) extending from Eastern Thrace in Europe across the peninsula of Asia Minor; meets the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean to the west and the Mediterranean to the south; has land borders with Greece and Bulgaria in Europe, and Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Syria. [e]
- United States [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See United States (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.