Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Liberia.It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. (Similarly named harvest festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn, including in Germany and Japan). Thanksgiving is celebrated on the …

Akitu or Akitum is a spring festival held on the first day of Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia, to celebrate the sowing of barley.The Assyrian and Babylonian Akitu festival has played a pivotal role in the development of theories of religion, myth and ritual.While the purpose of the festival remains a point of contention among both historians of religion and Assyriologists, it is certain …

Fêtes de l'Akitu. Chaque année au nouvel an, les dieux de Babylone et de Borsippa viennent lui rendre hommage lors des festivités de l'Akitu qui durent 12 jours à compter de l'équinoxe de printemps ; une grande procession s'organise le neuvième jour sur la voie sacrée. Le huitième et le onzième jour, les dieux se réunissent dans son ...

No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Elected Term of office Political party Took office Left office Time in office → • Iraqi Republic (pre–Ba'ath Party) (1958–1968) • : 1 Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i محمد نجيب الربيعي

Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq.In particular the societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, all of which existed shortly after 3000 BCE and were mostly …

Chaldea (/ k æ l ˈ d iː ə /) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. Semitic-speaking, it was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia and briefly came to rule Babylon.

The Culture of Iraq (Arabic: ثقافة العراق) or The Culture of Mesopotamia is one of the world's oldest cultural histories and is considered one of the most influential cultures in the world. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the Cradle of civilisation. Mesopotamian legacy went on to influence and shape the ...

The Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları or Toroslar) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau.The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. It is a part of the Alpide belt in Eurasia

The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) (Arabic: البنك المركزي العراقي) is the central bank of Iraq.It was established in 1947, the same year in which the British occupation of Iraq was ended. CBI's primary objectives are to ensure domestic price stability and foster a stable competitive market based financial system.

The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan.Parthian was the language of state of the Arsacid Parthian Empire (248 BC – 224 AD), as well as of its eponymous branches of the Arsacid dynasty of …