The Great Zab or Upper Zab (Arabic: الزَّاب الْكَبِيْر, romanized: ez-Zâb el-Kebîr; Kurdish: Zêy Badînan or Zêyê Mezin; Turkish: Zap; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܥܠܝܐ, romanized: zāba ʻalya) is an approximately 400-kilometre (250 mi) long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq. It rises in Turkey near Lake Van and joins the Tigris in Iraq south of Mosul. During its course, the river collects water from many tributaries and the drainage basin of the Great Zab covers approximately 40,300 square kilometres (15,600 sq mi). The river and its tributaries are primarily fed by rainfall and snowmelt – as a result of which discharge fluctuates highly throughout the year. At least six dams have been planned on the Great Zab and its tributaries, but construction of only one, the Bekhme Dam, has commenced but was halted after the Gulf War.
The Zagros Mountains have been occupied since at least the Lower Palaeolithic, and Neanderthal occupation of the Great Zab basin has been testified at the archaeological site of Shanidar Cave. Historical records for the region are available from the end of the third millennium BCE onward. In the Neo-Assyrian period, the Great Zab provided water for irrigation for the lands around the capital city of Nimrud. The Battle of the Zab – which ended the Umayyad Caliphate – took place near a tributary of the Great Zab, and the valleys of the river provided shelter for refugees from the Mongol conquest of Iraq. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the Great Zab basin saw frequent uprisings of local Kurdish tribes striving for autonomy.
The Battle of the Zab (Arabic: معركة الزاب), also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the GreatZāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on...
Zab or ZAB may refer to: The Zab rivers: GreatZab, or Upper Zab, river tributary to the Tigris Little Zab, or Lower Zab, river tributary to the Tigris...
world. January 25 – Battle of the Zab: Abbasid forces under Abdallah ibn Ali defeat the Umayyads near the GreatZab River. Members of the Umayyad house...
Look up zab, ząb, or Ząb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zab River may refer to: GreatZab, or Upper Zab, a tributary to the Tigris Little Zab, or Lower...
(6 mi) north of the point that the river Tigris meets its tributary the GreatZab. The city covered an area of 360 hectares (890 acres). The ruins of the...
(Arasān) and Buhtān rivers in Turkey; the Peshkhābur, the Little Zab, the GreatZab, and the Diyala in Iraq; and the Jaghatu (Zarrinarud), the Tātā'u...
was reported that U.S. Army combat engineers were seen just west of the GreatZab River about halfway between the Kurdish city of Irbil and Mosul. They...
represent the Tigris. The white lines in between the two great rivers symbolize the GreatZab; its white color stands for tranquility and peace. Some interpret...
politics. Arab–Byzantine wars Muslim conquest of the Maghreb Battle of the GreatZab River "The Abbasids had been aided in their ascent by the Shia, with whom...
Governorate of Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is built on a mesa in the broader GreatZab river valley. According to ibn al-Athir, the Arabic name "ʿAmadiyya" is...
Tharthar Wadi Hauran Tigris Diyala River Khasa River 'Adhaim Little ZabGreatZab Khazir River Khabur River Dujaila River Wadi al-Mirah Wadi Hamir Wadi...
one led by himself. These forces marched in March 1832, crossing the GreatZab River and first entering and killing many inhabitants of the Yezidi village...
of Iraq: landscapes of the Zagros Mountains drained by the Tigris and GreatZab Rivers". Journal of Maps. 17 (2): 225–236. doi:10.1080/17445647.2021.1906339...
Xenophon with a vast force, and when the Greeks reached the wide and deep GreatZab river, they seemed to be surrounded. A Rhodian proposed a plan in exchange...
decisive defeat by Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah on the banks of the GreatZab, called Battle of the Zab. At this battle alone, over 300 members of the Umayyad family...
al-'Abbas as-Saffah, who defeated the Umayyads in 750 in the battle near the GreatZab and was subsequently proclaimed caliph. After this loss, Marwan fled to...
a "village" located 4 kilometers downstream from Shadinar Cave on the GreatZab River, and has been dated to the cave's B2 level (10,870 BP). The Zarzi...
Nycteus), appearing in Euripides's Heracles Lycus, son of Poseidon Lycos or GreatZab, a river of Assyria, located in modern-day Turkey and Iraq Lycus (river...
fertile lands, plentiful water, and picturesque nature. The GreatZab and the Little Zab flow east–west in the region. The Tigris river enters Iraqi Kurdistan...
Hyrcanus I. When the allied armies defeated the Parthians (129 BCE) at the GreatZab (Lycus), the king ordered a ceasefire of two days on account of the Jewish...
Hormizd, ordinarily resided during the summer. Hormizd then left for the GreatZab River in order to cut communications between Ctesiphon and the Iranian...
Parthians; and when the allied armies defeated the Parthians (129 BCE) at the GreatZab (Lycus), the king ordered a halt of two days on account of the Jewish...
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