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    The Mesopotamian campaign or Mesopotamian front was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the...
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    when airboats were used by the British Army in the World War I Mesopotamian Campaign. However, airboats were not widely used by civilians until the 1930s...
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  • maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations...
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    under the command of Philaretos Brachamios with orders to defend the Mesopotamian frontier. Philaretos was soon defeated by the Turks, whose sack of Iconium...
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    Basil I, nicknamed "the Macedonian" (Greek: Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδών, translit. Basíleios ō Makedṓn; 811 – 29 August 886), was Byzantine emperor from 867 to...
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    The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1732-1733 was a military conflict during the eventful Perso-Ottoman war of 1730-1735. As a direct result of Tahmasp II's...
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    1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion. He fought numerous campaigns throughout the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia...
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    Iraq) during World War I. Formed in late 1915, it took part in the Mesopotamian Campaign from 1916 to 1918, providing communications to British forces. Later...
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    Kingdom of Iraq, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War. Although a League of Nations mandate was...
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    The campaigns of Nader Shah (Persian: لشکرکشی‌های نادرشاه), or the Naderian Wars (Persian: جنگ‌های نادری), were a series of conflicts fought in the early...
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    Battle of Kirkuk (1733) (category Campaigns of Nader Shah)
    Agh-Darband (Persian: نبرد آق‌دربند), was the last battle in Nader Shah's Mesopotamian campaign where he avenged his earlier defeat at the hands of the Ottoman...
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    elaborate decorative gold and silver ornaments sewn into them. The ancient Mesopotamians believed that their deities lived in Heaven, but that a god's statue...
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    region was undertaken by British Empire forces and was known as the Mesopotamian campaign. Fighting commenced with the Battle of Basra in 1914 and continued...
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    when friendly-fire incidents with the British in 1914 during the Mesopotamian campaign around the river Shatt al-Arab occurred due to Kuwait and the enemy...
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  • Other Neolithic sites in Kuwait are located in Khiran and Sulaibikhat. Mesopotamians first settled in the Kuwaiti island of Failaka in 2000 B.C. Traders...
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    Siege of Kut (category Battles of the Mesopotamian campaign)
    p. 233. A. J. Barker: The First Iraq War 1914–1918: Britain’s Mesopotamian Campaign Архивная копия от 27 августа 2016 на Wayback Machine, Enigma Books...
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  • hundreds of thousands of refugees or internally displaced persons: Mesopotamian campaign (1914–1918) Iraqi revolt of 1920 against the British Simele massacre...
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    was a British Army officer. He is known for his operations in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and for conquering Baghdad in 1917. Maude...
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    Ottoman wars in Europe Ottoman wars in Asia Ottoman wars in Africa Long campaign (1443–1444) Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (c. 1493 – 1593) Long War...
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    Western Front, while the peoples of India were more interested in the Mesopotamian campaign and the occupation of Baghdad. Australia did not have a war correspondent...
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    Home Rule leagues, and the realisation, after the disaster in the Mesopotamian campaign, that the war would likely last longer, the new viceroy, Lord Chelmsford...
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    Battle of Basra (1914) (category Battles of the Mesopotamian campaign)
     37–38. References Barker, Arthur James (1967). The Bastard War: The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918. Dial Press. OCLC 2118235. - Total pages: 449 Townshend...
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    The Mesopotamian campaigns of Ardashir I represented the first episode in a new period of wars between the Romans and Sasanids. The war between the Roman...
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    Western Front, in the Mesopotamian campaign, where he earned the Distinguished Service Order and in the Sinai and Palestine campaign, where he was awarded...
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  • (1730–1735) Western Persia campaign of 1730 Tahmasp's campaign of 1731 Nader Shah's Mesopotamian campaign Caucasus Campaign (1735) Safavid Empire • Erivan...
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    Fall of Baghdad (1917) (category Battles of the Mesopotamian campaign)
    capture of Baghdad, Manchester Guardian. Barker, A. J. The Bastard War: The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914–1918. New York: Dial Press, 1967. OCLC 2118235...
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    Mesopotamia (redirect from Mesopotamian)
    Byzantines. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including...
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    1929–1932: Lt. Colonel Sir Francis Humphrys Guardians of Independence Mesopotamian campaign Ottoman Iraq RAF Iraq Command Wright, Quincy. “The Government of...
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    000–5,000,000) of: Caucasus campaign Persian campaign Gallipoli campaign Mesopotamian campaign Sinai and Palestine campaign Arab Revolt South Arabia Armenian...
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    Slamas the first Battle of Slamas the second Battle of Derbend Mesopotamian campaign Battle of Sharqat Battle of Mosul 1918 Assyrian rebellion Simko...
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