Abstract
On 14 July 1958 the Republic of Iraq was declared by a group of Army officers, after an armed coup d’état in which the reigning King Faisal II and his uncle, the ex-Regent the Emir Abdul Illah, and the Prime Minister, Nuri al Said, lost their lives.
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Statistical Information. The Principal Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Economics, Baghdad, publishes an annual Statistical Abstract (latest issue 1957) and a Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics. Foreign Trade statistics are published annually by the Ministry of Economics (latest issue, 1956).
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Steinberg, S.H. (1959). Iraq. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270886_41
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