Key facts
- Status
- Class A League of Nations mandate of the United Kingdom
- Capital and largest city
- Baghdad
- Common languages
- Arabic · Kurdish , Armenian · Neo-Aramaic
- Religion
- Islam · Christianity , Judaism · Yazidism , Mandaeism
- Demonym
- Iraqi
- Government
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- 1921 1923
- Percy Cox
- 1923 1929
- Henry Dobbs
- 1929 1932
- Francis Humphrys
- 1921 1932
- Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi
- 1920 1922 first
- Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani
- 1930 1932 last
- Nuri al-Said
- Legislature
- Parliament
- Upper chamber
- Senate
- Lower chamber
- Chamber of Deputies
- Historical era
- Interwar period
- San remo conference
- 25 April 1920
- Treaty of s vres
- 10 August 1920
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofIraq Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration, or Mandatory Iraq (Arabic: الانتداب البريطاني على العراق, romanized: al-Intidāb al-Brīṭānī ʿalā l-ʿIrāq), was created in 1921, following the 1920 Iraqi Revolution against the proposed British Mandate of Mesopotamia, and enacted via the 1922 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and a 1924 undertaking by the United Kingdom to the League of Nations to fulfil the role as Mandatory Power.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mandatory Iraq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.