The Little Zab or Lower Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal; Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk; Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ, Zāba Taḥtāya) is a river that originates in Iran and joins the Tigris just south of Al Zab in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Little Zab is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) long and drains an area of about 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi). The river is fed by rainfall and snowmelt, resulting in a peak discharge in the spring and low water in the summer and early fall. Two dams built on the Little Zab regulate the river flow, providing water for irrigation and generating hydroelectricity. The Zagros Mountains have been populated since at least the Lower Palaeolithic, but the earliest archaeological site in the Little Zab basin, Barda Balka, dates to the Middle Palaeolithic. Human occupation of the Little Zab basin has been attested for every period since then.
Zab or ZAB may refer to: The Zab rivers: Great Zab, or Upper Zab, river tributary to the Tigris LittleZab, or Lower Zab, river tributary to the Tigris...
Look up zab, ząb, or Ząb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zab River may refer to: Great Zab, or Upper Zab, a tributary to the Tigris LittleZab, or Lower...
of the Tigris River, north of the confluence with its tributary, the LittleZab, in what is now Iraq, more precisely in the al-Shirqat District of the...
Shatt Al Arab (شط العرب) Tigris River (ܕܩܠܬ ܢܗܪܐ) (نهر دجلة) Great & LittleZab Rivers Districts of Iraq Iraq in the Qur’an List of largest cities of...
Murat (Arasān) and Buhtān rivers in Turkey; the Peshkhābur, the LittleZab, the Great Zab, and the Diyala in Iraq; and the Jaghatu (Zarrinarud), the Tātā'u...
which they were gathered. The city of Mosul and the area south to the LittleZab was allocated to France in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement of the First...
Al Zab, Al-Zab, or Az-Zab is a town in Iraq administered as part of the Kirkuk Governorate's Hawija District. Between 2014-2017, it was under the control...
As Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It impounds the LittleZab, thereby creating Lake Dukan. The Dukan Dam was built between 1954 and...
of its affluences are Garzan, Anbarçayi, Batman, and the Great and the LittleZab. Close to its confluence with the Euphrates, the Tigris splits into several...
Wadi Tharthar Wadi Hauran Tigris Diyala River Khasa River 'Adhaim LittleZab Great Zab Khazir River Khabur River Dujaila River Wadi al-Mirah Wadi Hamir...
Seimareh River Chankula River Sirwan River (Diyala River) Alwand River LittleZab Bahmanshir, the original mouth of the Karun Jarahi Zohreh River Helleh...
currency in the region, see British currency in the Middle East. There is little international demand for dinars, since Iraq has few exports other than oil...
early second millennium BC has been found at Tell Shemshara along the LittleZab. Tell Bazmusian, near Shemshara, was occupied between 5000 BCE and 800...
fertile lands, plentiful water, and picturesque nature. The Great Zab and the LittleZab flow east–west in the region. The Tigris river enters Iraqi Kurdistan...
Kel-i-šin pass, Sargon marched his army through the valleys of the Great and LittleZab for three days before halting near Mount Kullar (the location of which...
October 1918. Within two days it covered 120 kilometres, reaching the LittleZab River, where it met and engaged Ismail Hakki Bey's Sixth Army, most of...
with a minority of Arabs and Kurds. It is located on the shores of the LittleZab and on the Erbil–Kirkuk road. The town is described as having an 'intrinsic...
originate in the Zagros; from north to south they are the Great Zab, the LittleZab, and Diyala. Their courses have a rapid flow, on account of the steep...
Shergat), on the right bank of the Tigris, midway between the Great and LittleZab. It remained the capital long after the Assyrians had become the dominant...
rivers in Iraq, the most important of which are the Khabur, the Great Zab, the LittleZab, and the Adhaim, all of which join the Tigris above Baghdad, and...
now The Arch, a nightclub in Brighton, England Great Zab, a river in Turkey and Iraq LittleZab, a river in Iran and Iraq Zap Comix, an underground comics...
Darbandikhan. Anfal 4 took place between 3–8 May 1988 in the valley of the LittleZab, which forms the border of the provinces of Erbil and Kirkuk. The morale...
Irano-Aryan in origin and compares etymologically to those of the LittleZab and Great Zab rivers in the Tigris Basin. The Zhob River originates in the Kan...
recreation, including swimming. These falls are along a branch of the LittleZab River. The waterfalls are at their most substantial flow during the spring...
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