republic of iraq

1. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia;
   The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq (synset 108933207)
   domain member region:

   • assyrian, assyrian neo-aramaic - the language of modern Iraq
   • ansar al islam, ansar al-islam, supporters of islam - a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein
   • abu nidal organization, ano, arab revolutionary brigades, black september, fatah revolutionary council, fatah-rc, revolutionary organization of socialist muslims - a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
   • iis, iraqi intelligence service, iraqi mukhabarat - the most notorious and possibly the most important arm of Iraq's security system
   • republican guard - formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad
   • akhbari - a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli
   is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
   member holonym: iraki, iraqi - a native or inhabitant of Iraq
   belongs to:

   • arab league - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
   • opec, organization of petroleum-exporting countries - an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
   has:

   • bagdad, baghdad, capital of iraq - capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River
   • basia, basra - the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq
   • karbala, kerbala, kerbela - a city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad; a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680
   • kirkuk - a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
   • mosul - a city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh
   • mesopotamia - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq
   • babylonia, chaldaea, chaldea - an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)
   • chaldaea, chaldea - an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II
   • sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
   • assyria - an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
   • ashur, assur, asur - an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq
   • nineveh - an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq
   • kurdistan - an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus
   • iraqi kurdistan - the part of Kurdistan that is in northwestern Iraq
   • syrian desert - a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia
   • euphrates, euphrates river - a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
   • tigris, tigris river - an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
   is a part of:

   • middle east, mideast, near east - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century
   • gulf states - the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf
   • asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
   same as: al-iraq, irak, iraq

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