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  1. Complete the sentence about Basra with the correct year: Basra came under Portuguese control in ______ and later fell under the control of the Ottomans as part of the Basra Eyalet, one of the province…
  2. Complete the sentence about Erbil with the correct year: In July ______, the Citadel of Erbil was inscribed as a World Heritage Site.
  3. Complete the sentence about Erbil with the correct year: In ______ a small excavation was conducted by Karel Novacek of the University of West Bohemia.
  4. Complete the sentence about Erbil with the correct year: In ______ a team from the Sapienza University of Rome conducted some ground penetrating radar work on the center of the citadel.
  5. Complete the sentence about Erbil with the correct year: Starting in ______ an Iraqi-led excavation began on a citadel location where the collapse of a modern building provided an opportunity for exca…
  6. Complete the sentence about Sulaymaniyah with the correct year: The region of Slemani was known as Zamwa prior to the foundation of the modern city in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Sulaymaniyah with the correct year: Sulayman Baban invaded the neighboring Kurdish vassaldom of Ardalan, defeating their forces in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Karbala with the correct year: After the Siege of Baghdad in ______, Karbala came under the control of the Mongol Empire led by Hulegu Khan.
  9. Complete the sentence about Karbala with the correct year: In ______, Karbala was site of an uprising, which drove the Ottomans out of the city.
  10. Complete the sentence about Nasiriyah with the correct year: During World War I, the British conquered the city, controlled at the time by the Ottoman Empire, in July ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Ramadi with the correct year: Founded in ______, it was one of the towns established during the later period of Ottoman Iraq.
  12. Complete the sentence about Ramadi with the correct year: On 28 December ______, the Iraqi government declared, confirming media testimonies, that it had re-taken Ramadi, that government's first major…
  13. Complete the sentence about Samarra with the correct year: Since ______, the notebooks, letters, unpublished excavation reports and photographs have been in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C…
  14. Complete the sentence about Tikrit with the correct year: The Christian community received a setback when the governor ordered the destruction of the main cathedral known popularly as the "Green Churc…
  15. Complete the sentence about Dohuk with the correct year: In ______, Rich described Duhok as a small town comprising 300 houses, serving as the principal site for the Doski tribe, accompanied by eighty…
  16. Complete the sentence about Dohuk with the correct year: By ______, Rabbi Yehiel found two minyans of Jews in the area.
  17. Complete the sentence about Amarah with the correct year: Before the revolution in ______ Amarah was known for its feudal system with local estate-holders maintaining private militias.
  18. Complete the sentence about Amarah with the correct year: After the Persian Gulf War, Amarah was one of many sites during the ______ uprisings in Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
  19. Complete the sentence about Amarah with the correct year: In May ______, Ba'ath party militias and units of the Special Republican Guard conducted operations in the region.
  20. Complete the sentence about Kut with the correct year: On December 7, ______, the Turks, under their commander, Colonel Nureddin Pasha, arrived at Kut and began a siege that lasted 147 days.
  21. Complete the sentence about Tal Afar with the correct year: In ______, Tal Afar was used as a base of operations for a planned revolt against the then ruling British.
  22. Complete the sentence about Baqubah with the correct year: The camp set up by the British mandate government in Iraq housed Assyrians and Armenians following the ______ Sayfo and Armenian genocide by…
  23. Complete the sentence about Zakho with the correct year: Writing in ______, Campanile described the town as a great trading centre, famous for its gallnuts as well as rice, oil, sesame, wax, lentils a…
  24. Complete the sentence about Halabja with the correct year: In August ______, three 17th-century tombs were discovered in the Ababile district of the town.
  25. Complete the sentence about Ur with the correct year: Excavation in the old city of Ur in ______ revealed the Lyres of Ur, instruments similar to the modern harp but in the shape of a bull and with el…
  26. Complete the sentence about Ur with the correct year: The name derives from Tell al-'Ubaid where the earliest large excavation of Ubaid period material was conducted initially in ______ by Henry Hall…
  27. Complete the sentence about Nineveh with the correct year: Benjamin of Tudela visited it in ______; Petachiah of Regensburg soon after.
  28. Complete the sentence about Nimrud with the correct year: In March ______, the Iraqi government reported that Islamic State had used bulldozers to destroy excavated remains of the city.
  29. Complete the sentence about Hatra with the correct year: The first of the Hatran inscriptions was discovered in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Uruk with the correct year: In ______, two different copies of an inscription were put forth as evidence of a 19th-century BC ruler of Uruk named Naram-sin.
  31. Complete the sentence about Eridu with the correct year: The site was initially excavated by John George Taylor, the British Vice-counsel at Basra, in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Eridu with the correct year: An interesting find by Hall was a piece of manufactured blue glass which he dated to c. ______ BC.
  33. Complete the sentence about Assur with the correct year: The site is a World Heritage Site and was added to that organization's list of sites in danger in ______ as a result of a proposed dam, which w…
  34. Complete the sentence about Assur with the correct year: Regular exploration of Assur began in ______ by German archaeologists.
  35. Complete the sentence about Erbil Citadel with the correct year: The citadel was added to the World Heritage List on 21 June ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Erbil Citadel with the correct year: After the Mongols captured the citadel in ______, the importance of Erbil declined.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ziggurat of Ur with the correct year: The remains of the ziggurat were rediscovered by William Loftus in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ishtar Gate with the correct year: After the end of the First World War in ______, the smaller frontal gate was reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
  39. Complete the sentence about Tigris with the correct year: In February ______, the United States Embassy in Iraq as well as the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi issued warnings that Mosul Dam cou…
  40. Complete the sentence about Shatt al-Arab with the correct year: Control of the river was at last permanently ceded to the Ottomans with the Treaty of Zuhab in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Shatt al-Arab with the correct year: In general, the Treaty of Zuhab roughly re-established the common borders of the Ottomans and Safavid Empires the way they had been in…
  42. Complete the sentence about Mesopotamian Marshes with the correct year: Since the American overthrow of Hussein in ______, the marshes have partially recovered.
  43. Complete the sentence about Mesopotamian Marshes with the correct year: The Mesopotamian marshes were listed as an UNESCO Heritage Site in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Mesopotamian Marshes with the correct year: Before the ______ Invasion of Iraq, about 90% of the marshes had been drained.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lake Tharthar with the correct year: In ______, the southern part of the Tharthar depression was turned into an artificial reservoir to collect floodwaters of the Tigris Ri…
  46. Complete the sentence about Lake Tharthar with the correct year: Lake Tharthar was the site of a joint American-Iraqi raid in ______ against an insurgent training base in the region.
  47. Complete the sentence about Mosul Dam with the correct year: Built in the 1980s on a karst foundation, concerns over the dam's instability have led to major remediation and rehabilitation efforts sinc…
  48. Complete the sentence about Mosul Dam with the correct year: In ______, one of their sites, Tell Deir Situn garnered an Assyrian fibula, some Hellenic oil lamps, and a Seleucid coin of Alexander Balas…
  49. Complete the sentence about Haditha Dam with the correct year: The Haditha Dam project was conceived in the late 1960s; construction began in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Nineveh Governorate with the correct year: Before ______, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate.
  51. Complete the sentence about Nineveh Governorate with the correct year: The insurgents moved to Nineveh after the Battle of Fallujah in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Nineveh Governorate with the correct year: In June ______, Osama Kashmoula became the interim governor of the province and in September of the same year he was assassinated…
  53. Complete the sentence about Dhi Qar Governorate with the correct year: Prior to ______ the governorate was known as Muntafiq Governorate.
  54. Complete the sentence about Dhi Qar Governorate with the correct year: In the mid-1990s the governor was Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who later became police chief of the country, and in ______, di…
  55. Complete the sentence about Maysan Governorate with the correct year: In ______, Janabi was relieved from his position and sent to work for Saddam in Baghdad instead.
  56. Complete the sentence about Wasit Governorate with the correct year: During the Iraq spring fighting of ______, the Mahdi Army briefly took control of the capital Kut, from April 6 to April 16, before…
  57. Complete the sentence about Diyala Governorate with the correct year: The Diyala Media Center was built under contract by a Japanese architectural firm in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Diyala Governorate with the correct year: By mid-______ the Islamic State of Iraq, already holding Baqubah and most of the province under its control, declared its capital…
  59. Complete the sentence about Saladin Governorate with the correct year: Before ______ the governorate was part of Baghdad Governorate.
  60. Complete the sentence about Saladin Governorate with the correct year: The following table shows the populations of the districts of Saladin Governorate, according to the United Nations in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Babylon Governorate with the correct year: In the year ______, Babil Governorate was the center of a Shia uprising.
  62. Complete the sentence about Al-Qadisiyyah Governorate with the correct year: Before ______, it was part of the ad-Diwāniyah Governorate, along with al-Muthannā and Najaf.
  63. Complete the sentence about Muthanna Governorate with the correct year: Before ______ it was part of the Diwaniya Province, which included present-day Najaf Governorate and al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.
  64. Complete the sentence about Muthanna Governorate with the correct year: In February ______ it was the location of one of the largest tank battles in history during the Persian Gulf War, the Battle of…
  65. Complete the sentence about Kirkuk Governorate with the correct year: Kirkuk Governorate borders were altered in ______; when 4 districts were added to the Sulaymaniya, Diyala and Saladin Governorates…
  66. Complete the sentence about Syrian Desert with the correct year: The Syrian desert was first traversed by motor vehicle in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Rub' al Khali with the correct year: South Ghawar, discovered in ______, is the largest oil field in the world and extends southward into the northernmost parts of the Empt…
  68. Complete the sentence about Umm Qasr with the correct year: A bridge across the waterway linked the port with Kuwait prior to the ______ Persian Gulf War.
  69. Complete the sentence about Umm Qasr with the correct year: After the Iraqi Revolution of ______, a naval base was established at Umm Qasr.
  70. Complete the sentence about Umm Qasr with the correct year: The port was subsequently founded in ______ by the Iraqi ruler General Abdul-Karim Qassem.
  71. Complete the sentence about Umm Qasr with the correct year: Umm Qasr was threatened after the Iranian invasion and occupation of the al-Faw Peninsula in ______ but the port never fell.
  72. Complete the sentence about Faw Peninsula with the correct year: On 17 April ______, the newly restructured Iraqi Army began a major operation, "Ramadan Mubarak," which was aimed to clear the Iranians…
  73. Complete the sentence about Faw Peninsula with the correct year: The ______ Gulf War was fought south and west of al-Faw, but the peninsula's military installations were heavily bombed by Allied force…
  74. Complete the sentence about Rumaila oil field with the correct year: Under Abdul-Karim Qasim, the oilfield was nationalised by the Iraqi government by Public Law No. 80 on 11 December ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Rumaila oil field with the correct year: The dispute between Iraq and Kuwait over alleged slant-drilling in the field was one of the reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait i…
  76. Complete the sentence about Majnoon oil field with the correct year: The field was discovered by Braspetro, a Brazilian company in ______, under the leadership of Bolivar Montenegro Guerra in a shallo…
  77. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Saudi Arabia border with the correct year: In the meantime Ibn Saud had managed to expand his domains considerably, eventually proclaiming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…
  78. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Saudi Arabia border with the correct year: The details of this treaty were not revealed until ______ when Saudi Arabia deposited the agreements at the United Nations f…
  79. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Turkey border with the correct year: British and Turkish officials met in ______ but were unable to determine a mutually satisfactory border, and the matter was referr…
  80. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Syria border with the correct year: In ______, it was finalised following a League of Nations commission review.
  81. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Jordan border with the correct year: Iraq's Ruwayshid Air Base lies immediately adjacent to the border; the ______ border revisions ensured it was clearly inside Iraq.
  82. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Jordan border with the correct year: Eventually in ______ Britain declared a mandate over the region, creating the Emirate of Transjordan, under the semi-autonomous ru…
  83. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Jordan border with the correct year: Lawrence in January ______ that Transjordan be extended to include Wadi Sirhan as far south as al-Jauf, in order to protect Britai…
  84. Complete the sentence about Iraq–Kuwait border with the correct year: As a result of the secret ______ Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement the United Kingdom gained control of the Ottoman Vilayets of M…
  85. Complete the sentence about Sinjar with the correct year: Beginning with the rule of the Turkmen atabeg Jikirmish in ______/07, Sinjar entered its most prosperous historical period lasting through the…
  86. Complete the sentence about Qaraqosh with the correct year: As of October ______, the city is under the control of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units.
  87. Complete the sentence about Lalish with the correct year: During a major campaign by the governor of Mosul against the Yazidi in ______, the tomb of Adi was razed.
  88. Complete the sentence about Rawandiz with the correct year: The area came under the rule of the Emirate of Bradost after the Battle of Chaldiran in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Rawandiz with the correct year: The town would later come under the rule of the Soran Emirate until ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Rawandiz with the correct year: In ______, during the First World War, the town was occupied by the Russians and Assyrians.
  91. Complete the sentence about Rawandiz with the correct year: In ______ the town was occupied by the Turks, until they were driven out at the end of the year.
  92. Complete the sentence about Shaqlawa with the correct year: Shaqlawa is situated between Safeen mountain and Sork mountain, and sits ______ m above sea level.
  93. Complete the sentence about Amedi with the correct year: According to ibn al-Athir, the Arabic name "ʿAmadiyya" is eponymous to Imad al-Din Zengi, who built a Citadel in ______ on the site of an earli…
  94. Complete the sentence about Amedi with the correct year: In ______, according to Joseph ha-Kohen's Emeq ha-Baka, the Jewish population numbered about a thousand families and traded in gall-nuts.
  95. Complete the sentence about Shanidar Cave with the correct year: Anthropologist Ralph Solecki, who was part of the University of Michigan Expedition to the Near East, first explored the site with a so…
  96. Complete the sentence about Shanidar Cave with the correct year: The first human remains, believed to be those of a Neanderthal infant from the Mousterian era of the Middle Paleolithic period, were di…
  97. Complete the sentence about Iraqi dinar with the correct year: The dinar was pegged at par with sterling until ______ when, without changing its value, the peg was switched to the United States dollar…
  98. Complete the sentence about Iraqi dinar with the correct year: The pre-______ notes became known as Swiss dinars while the new dinar notes were called Iraqi dinars.
  99. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the w…
  100. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The name "oryx" was introduced by Peter Simon Pallas in ______ for the common eland as Antilope oryx.

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