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The Iraqi civilization was built by peoples and nations, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Persians, Turks, Arabs, and Babylonians. Religious and cultural circumstances have helped Arabs to become the majority of Iraq’s population today, followed by Kurds, Turkmen, and other nationalities.
Iraqis (Arabic: العراقيون al-ʿIrāqiyyūn; Kurdish: عراقیان Êrāqīyan) are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of Iraq.The majority of Iraqis are Arabs, [22] with Kurds accounting for the largest ethnic minority, followed by Turkmen.
Arab Iraq (Arabic: عراق العرب, romanized: ‘Irāq ul-‘Arab, lit. 'Iraq of the Arabs ') was a term used to refer to the Arab -populated region to the west of Persian Iraq . It included Lower Mesopotamia and some desert areas which are geographically connected to the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula without any natural borders.
Maliki's Arab Shi'ite-led government was locked in a dispute with the autonomous Kurdish regional government, which has banned the use of the Iraqi state flag on public buildings. The prime minister issued a blunt statement on Sunday saying: "The Iraqi flag is the only flag that should be raised over any square inch of Iraq."
In pre-Islamic Arabia, there were many Arabs who lived in the cultural sphere of Persia and thus used Persian as their written language. They were referred to as Persian Arabs (Arabic: العرب الفرس Al-‘Arab al-Furs). [5] At the time of the Sasanian Empire, there was a notable Arab-Persian community called Al-Abnaʾ (الأبناء, lit.
Iraqi Roma predominantly reside in remote villages in southern Iraq, particularly in Al-Qadissiya governorate, in addition to the surrounding areas of Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul. Despite the fact that most Romani people in Iraq belong to the Shi’a or Sunni Muslim faith, they face persecution from Islamist militias due to their customary roles ...
Iraqi Sunni Arabs; Iraqi Shia Arabs; References This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 21:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
However, the new Persian rulers accused the Jews of collaborating with their Greek enemies, using this as a justification to strip them of self-rule. The position of Resh Galuta was abolished, and a Persian official was appointed to oversee the Jewish community, including collecting taxes. This position, which had been taken from the Jews, was ...