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Bank of Iraq

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4118823 ↗
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Bank of Iraq (Arabic: مصرف العراق) is an Iraqi bank, formerly known as Iraqi Socialist Bank. It was founded in 1991 and it is the smallest of the state-owned banks with four branches. Total assets were $8.4 million as of 2003.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bank, Iraq and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bank of Iraq” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.