List of kings of Iraq

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The king of Iraq (Template:Langx) was Iraq's head of state and monarch from 1921 to 1958. He served as the head of the Iraqi monarchy—the Hashemite dynasty. The king was addressed as His Majesty (Template:Langx).

HistoryEdit

Template:Further In the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the three provinces (vilayets) of Ottoman Iraq came under the control of the United Kingdom. Under British occupation, the people rebelled and Iraq showed itself a hard land to govern. In order to establish a pro-British client regime, a dynasty of Hashemite kings from the Hejaz region was established, beginning with Faisal I who was the son of Hussein bin Ali. As a family originating in the Hejaz, the Hashemites was foreign to Iraq. The British Government appointed them as Iraq's royal family after a plebiscite in 1921.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Hashemites were largely opposed by the Iraqi Shiites and Kurds. The Kingdom of Iraq existed until an Iraqi nationalist coup d'état in 1958 known as the 14 July Revolution established the Iraqi Republic.

King-designate of Iraq (1920)Edit

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Kings of Iraq (1921–1958)Edit

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TimelineEdit

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DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1920 till:1958 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

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 id:king   value:orange  legend: king
 id:regent value:skyblue legend: regent

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 bar:GhaziI
 bar:FaisalII
 bar:Abdullah
 bar:Sharaf

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 align:left fontsize:10 shift:(3,-4) anchor:from width:15 
 
 bar:FaisalI  from: 1921 till: 1933 color:king   text:"Faisal I"
 bar:GhaziI   from: 1933 till: 1939 color:king   text:"Ghazi I"
 bar:FaisalII from: 1939 till: 1958 color:king   text:"Faisal II"

 bar:Abdullah from: 1939 till: 1941 color:regent text:"Abd al-Ilah"
              from: 1941 till: 1953 color:regent
 bar:Sharaf   from: 1941 till: 1941 color:regent text:"Sharaf bin Rajeh"