A History of Iraq
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521878234
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Political structure & processes; History; History - General History; History: World; Iraq; Middle East - General; Political History; History / Middle East
First sentence: "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the lands that were to become the territories of the modern state of Iraq were gradually incorporated into the Ottoman Empire as three provinces, based on the towns of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra."