Iraq

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The country of Iraq was previously part of the area known as Mesopotamia. It was also known as Turkish Arabia.

Iraq's modern borders were created in 1920 by a League of Nations mandate and Iraq was placed under British control, known as the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. A monarchy was established in 1921 and the Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932.

The capital is Baghdad.

Also see

Records

  • See General Register Office for births, marriages and deaths.
  • The BACSA Archive at the British Library Mss F370 has item 825 Iraq
    • Baghdad, civil cemetery: 1886-1980
    • Abadan, St Christopher's
    • Habbaniya
    • Kut
  • A search for Baghdad in the Society of Genealogists, London online Catalogue gives the following entry:
    • Baghdad (Civil cemetery) : MIs: Asia monumental inscriptions, vol. 1 by Andrew Peake (8 pages, typescript)
The FamilySearch Library catalogue has an entry for this typescript. However it appears to be only available at the Library in Salt Lake City.
A search for Persian Gulf includes the following entry:
  • Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44

External links

  • Mesopotamia Wikipedia
  • Iraq Wikipedia
  • British Mandate of Mesopotamia 1920-1932 Wikipedia
  • "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I, March 2009 html version, original pdf
  • This link is a table which shows the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Basrah and Baghdad [1]
  • "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" by John Packer Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. html version,original pdf
Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.

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