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Geographical Location - Iraq

1. Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
2. Arameans Emerge in Syria and Mesopotamia
3. Armenian Empire Reaches Its Peak Under Tigranes the Great
4. Battle of Baghdad
5. Battle of Gaugamela
6. Byzantine-Persian Wars
7. Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
8. Coalition Defeats Iraq in Gulf War
9. Composition of the Gilgamesh Epic
10. Cyrus the Great Founds the Persian Empire
11. Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
12. Enheduanna Becomes First Named Author
13. Fall of Babylon
14. Founding of the Ptolemaic Dynasty and Seleucid Kingdom
15. Fungicide-Tainted Grain Poisons Thousands of Iraqis
16. Greco-Persian Wars
17. Gulf War
18. Halafian Culture Flourishes in Northern Mesopotamia
19. Iran-Iraq Conflict Escalates into War
20. Iran-Iraq War Escalates
21. Iraq Invades and Ravages Kuwait
22. Iraq Is Warned to Avoid “No Fly” Zone
23. Iraq Promotes Genocide of Kurds
24. Iraq Uses Poison Gas Against Kurds
25. Iraq Uses Toxic Gas in the Gulf War
26. Iraqi Military in the Late Twentieth Century
27. Iraqi Missiles Strike U.S. Navy Frigate Stark
28. Kurds Battle Turkey’s Government
29. Manichaeanism Begins in Mesopotamia
30. March of the Ten Thousand
31. Military History of the Assyrian Empire
32. Mitanni Kingdom Flourishes in Upper Mesopotamia
33. Mongol Empire
34. Muslim Civil War of 657-661
35. Muslim Civil War of 861-870
36. Nebuchadnezzar Creates the First Neo-Babylonian State
37. Parthian Empire
38. Persian Civil Wars
39. Persian Empire
40. Persian Gulf War
41. Persian Wars of Expansion
42. Promulgation of Hammurabi’s Code
43. Sargon of Akkad Establishes the Akkadian Dynasty
44. Sāsānid Empire
45. Scythians Drive the Cimmerians from Central Asia
46. Shāpūr II Reigns over Sāsānian Empire
47. Siege of Kut-al-Amara
48. Siege of Nahāvand
49. Silk Road Opens
50. Sumerian Civilization Begins in Mesopotamia