State · 1958 – 1968

First Republic of Iraq

A state of 1958 – 1968 — 10 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 3 things within it — regime change 3. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 10 years; 1958 – 1968
Rulers: 4; the President
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbols: 5; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i	1958 – 1963	5 years	ending not on record
Abdul Salam Arif	1963 – 1966	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz	1966 – 1966	under a year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abdul Rahman Arif	1966 – 1968	2 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1958 – 1968. Only 10 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.91, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, to 1959Flag of Iraq (1924–1959) · Public domain
flag, 1959 – 1963Flag of Iraq (1959–1963) · Public domain
coat of arms, 1959 – 1965Emblem of Iraq (1959-1965) · Public domain
flag, from 1963Flag of Iraq (1963–1991) · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1965Coat of arms of Iraq (1965–1991) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 19993 rows · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

Ramadan Revolution · adverse regime change · 1963
17 July Revolution · adverse regime change · 1968
November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état · adverse regime change · 1963

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood10 years
stood longer than 17% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the articlecoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1948 – 1978, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3041595 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.