British Influence in Mesopotemia 1900-1914
British Influence in Mesopotemia 1900-1914
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1957
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Although several European powers showed early interest in the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia, its natural land extension, Britain was more successful than her rivals in exploiting commercial and political possibilities in the area, and over a period of three centuries gradually emerged as the dominant foreign power there.