Iraq Levies
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iraq-levies-176-413451
title:
Iraq Levies
text:
The Iraq Levies were the first Iraqi military force established by the British in British controlled Iraq. The Iraq Levies originated in a local armed scout force raised during the First World War. After Iraq became a British Mandate, the force was composed mostly of Assyrians, Kurds and Iraqi Turkmen who lived in the north of the country, while the nascent Iraqi Army was recruited first from the Arabs who had joined the Iraqi Levies and later from the general Arab population (Beth-Kamala). Even
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military unit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Levies
date created:
2007-01-16T04:34:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:08:10Z
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fields total:
13
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