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Category: Uprising, from Wikidata’s class “rebellion”

1959 Mosul uprising

1959 · Iraq

Part of: Arab Cold War

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: rebellion (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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The 1959 Mosul Uprising started with an attempted coup by Arab nationalists in Mosul who wished to depose the then Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul-Karim Qasim, and install an Arab nationalist government which would then join the Republic of Iraq with the United Arab Republic. Following the failure of the coup, law and order broke down in Mosul, which witnessed several days of violent street battles between various groups attempting to use the chaos to settle political and personal scores.

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1959 Mosul uprising. (2026, October 21). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1959_Mosul_uprising&oldid=1381312272

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