Iraq exists under its current name and within its current borders officially only since 1932. The region -- which does not necessarily correspond with the current borders -- had many names over the past millennia, such as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria and more. Many minorities of race and religion lived there. The Jewish exile to Babylon began in 586 BC, following Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem. In Western historiography the Levant is also...
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