From uruknet.info
[Time and again I come across statements that Iraq was a state 'artificially' constructed at the end of World War I by the occupying French and British out of the three separate Ottoman regions of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. These statements are frequently made by 'experts' on Iraq! I have come across such assertions only too often... I would like to elaborate on this, at least to have something to refer people to in the future!]In a nutshell
Iraq's habitation goes back at least to the end of the last ice age. As a single country, it has been in existence for about 4,400 years. In addition to the long history, the country has been defined by geography: The two rivers of Mesopotamia clearly define a geographically unified region surrounded by mountains on the east and desert on the west in which people have been freely mixing for several thousand years!
