The Iraq National Library and Archive (Arabic: دار الكتب والوثائق العراقـيـة transliterated: Dār al-Kutub wa al-Wathā’iq al-‘Irāqiyyah), is the national library and national archives of Iraq and is in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. It was founded in 1920 and has been much affected by losses resulting from warfare.
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