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	Zab: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Both rivers are extensively used for irrigation, flood control on the Tigris, and hydroelectricity.
		Zab Maboungou, of Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata, is a Franco-Congolese pioneer of African dance in Canada.
		ZAB zab, zab, name applied to the two principal tributaries of the Tigris River.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/zab.jsp?l=Z&p=1 (1393 words)

	www. Persia .it
		Rivers was determined as the border between Media and Lydia.
		Edessa; the kingdom of Adiabene, or ancient Assyria, whose capital was Arbela on the Zab River; the
		River always remained the border between the territories of these two families.
	www.persia.it /English/html/history.htm (5331 words)

	Tigris - MSN Encarta
		Tigris (Arabic Dijlah, Turkish Dicle), river in southwestern Asia, rising in Turkey and flowing through Iraq before joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt al Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.
		The river originates in the mountains of eastern Turkey and flows southeast into Iraq after briefly forming the extreme eastern portion of the border between Syria and Turkey.
		However, the waters of the Great Zab rise in Turkey and those of the Little Zab and the Diyālá rise in Iran.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574188/Tigris.html (467 words)

	Bahrain encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Bahrain politics and officials, Bahrain History. Travel to Bahrain
		However, it does not appear that this was the original name of the river, but that it (like the Semitic forms of the name) was coined as an imitation of the indigenous Sumerian name.
		River trade declined in importance during the 20th century as the Basra-Baghdad-Mosul railway and roads took over much of the freight traffic.
		The river is heavily dammed in both Iraq and Turkey, in order to provide water for irrigating the arid and semi-desert regions bordering the river valley.
	www.bahrainiworld.com /wiki-Tigris_River (705 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Zab River" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rivers are extensively used for irrigation and hydroelectricity, with major dams on both rivers.
		It forms the approximate boundary of the Kurdish-populated region of Iraq and is used as the political boundary of the Kurdish Autonomous Region.
		In 750 CE, the Great Zab was the scene of the Battle of the Zab between the Umayyads and the Abbasids.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=zab_%52iver (420 words)

	Zab river (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zab is the name given to two separate rivers that flow through Iran, Iraq and Turkey to become the two principal tributaries of the Tigris.
		The Great Zab (Zab Ala) rises in the mountains of southeastern Turkey and flows south for 265 miles (426 km) before joining the Tigris south of the city of Mosul.
		The Little Zab (Zab Asfal) rises in northwestern Iran and flows southwest for 250 miles (402 km) through Iraq to join the Tigris north of the town of Baiji.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Zab_river (153 words)

	Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Introduction - Drainage Basins - Tigris River
		Rivers drain south and west to become tributaries of the Tigris River in Iraq or its confluence with the Euphrates River, the Shatt al Arab (known as the Arvand (= swift) Rud in Iran).
		The main river is the Karun, with a catchment of 67,340 sq km (Naff and Matson, 1984) and a length of 820 km.
		The marshes are on the floodplain of the Karkheh River.
	www.briancoad.com /Introduction/tigrisriverbasin.htm (7568 words)

	Broadback Trip Log
		Zab, Nick, Joelle and I nervously went over to meet him, and he turned out to be a really nice fishing guide who worked for an outfitter called Bushman.
		Too bad Zab is addicted to the sunrise and boldly threw me out of the tent at the crack of dawn to warm her with a fire while she relaxed and gazed at the sky.
		Zab and Carl had to do a lot of running through the bush to find that portage, and when they finally did we all came down and had a great lunch of tuna wraps at the top before starting.
	www.paddlefoot.ca /trip_journals/2004/WLP's.htm (9249 words)

	Zab River - Encyclopedia.com
		The two rivers double the flow of the Tigris during the floods of March and April.
		Iraqi positions on a ridge west of the Zab river came under relentless attack, sending troops running for cover or speeding away in cars.
		The Bekhme dam project in Kurdistan Iraq: a threat to the archaeology of the archaeology of the upper Zagros river valley.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-383245.html (1077 words)

	Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
		It is situated in the Mackenzie River delta near the Yukon border.
		An important road and rail junction in the Tapti River valley, it is a commercial...
		river in southern Alabama, U.S. It is formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Montgomery, winds westward to Selma,...
	www.britannicaindia.com /britannica_browse/a/a15.html (1772 words)

	The Bekhme dam project in Kurdistan Iraq: a threat to the archaeology of the archaeology of the upper Zagros river ...
		Owing to unusual circumstances in Iraq in the early 1990s the building of a dam across the Greater Zab River in the vicinity of a small village called Bekhme was stopped and the project abandoned.
		With this termination, the archaeology of this part of the Greater Zab River, called the Sapna Valley, was given a reprieve.
		Looking down river from a point near Amadia, in the upper long reaches of the Greater Zab River, a major branch of the Tigris River, one is treated to a breath-taking panoramic view of the valley (Pl. 1).
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SBL/is_1-2_19/ai_n15954367 (931 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Assur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq (coordinates:
		The Tigris River (Arabic: Ø¯Ø¬Ù„Ø©; Dijla, Hebrew: ×—×“×§×œ á¸¥iddeqel, Kurdish: DÃ®jle, Pahlavi: Tigr, Old Persian: TigrÄ-, Syriac: Ü•Ü©Ü Ü¬; Deqlath, Turkish: Dicle, Akkadian: Idiqlat) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq (the name Mesopotamia...
		The Zab (also known as the Zawa in Syriac) is a river that splits from the Tigris and flows from northern Iraq into southeastern Turkey.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Assur (2184 words)

	ZAB RIVER : Encyclopedia Entry
		Zab (Turkish: Zap suyu, Kurdish: Zê, Persian: زاب; Zâb, Syriac: ܙܒܐ; Zawa) is the name given to two separate rivers that flow through Iran, Iraq and Turkey to become the two principal tributaries of the Tigris.
		The Little, or Lower, Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاسفل‎: al-Zāb al-Asfal, Persian: زاب کوچک; Zâb-e Kuchak, Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ; Zawa takhtaya) rises in northwestern Iran, in the north of Piranshahr city and flows southwest for 402 km (250 miles) through Iraq to join the Tigris north of the town of Baiji.
		The Dokan Dam in Iraqi Kurdistan is built on the Little Zab.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Zab_River (377 words)

	Iraq - Water Resources
		The remainder of the cultivated land is in the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which receive scant rainfall and rely instead on water from the rivers.
		Both rivers are fed by snowpack and rainfall in eastern Turkey and in northwest Iran.
		It was also hoped that the water could be used for irrigation after the rivers peaked in the spring, but the combination of high evaporation from the reservoirs and the absorption of salt residues in the depressions made some of the water too brackish for agricultural use.
	countrystudies.us /iraq/58.htm (809 words)

	The Tigris River
		The Tigris River is 1,150 miles long and begins on the Armenian plateau in Turkey.
		Although the upper reaches of the Tigris are higher than the Euphrates, in southern Iraq the bed of the Tigris is lower than that of the Euphrates and the canals between the two rivers have their tailings in the Tigris, causing the water in these canals to flow from west to east..
		Two types of native boats were used on the Tigris River and Shatt al Arab, a round skin boat (skins stretched over a frame of willow branches) known as a coracle (Arabian = Quffa, Akkadian = Quppu) and a rectangular raft type known as a riverboat (Arabian = Kelek, Akkadian = Kalakku).
	www.jameswbell.com /a008thetigrisriver.html (525 words)

	The Clan Cave
		The Greater Zab River in the vicinity of the village of Shanidar is between 600 and 900 yards wide during periods of moderate flow.
		A phenomenon of the Shanidar valley, occurring especially in the fall, is the fogging of the river valley bottom in the early morning.
		On a bluff overlooking the river and facing downstream in the gloom, was a barefoot young girl chanting.
	donsmaps.com /clancave4.html (14417 words)

	Battle of the Zab
		The Battle of the Zab took place on the banks of the Great Zab river in what is now Iraq on January 25, 750.
		A serious rebellion had broken out in 747 against the Umayyad dynasty, who ruled much of the Middle East from 661 to 750.
		In 750, the army of the Umayyad caliph Marwan II fought a combined force of Persians, Shi'ite Arabs and Abbasid soldiers at the Zab.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/battle_of_the_zab.html (167 words)

	Iraq Marshlands Restoration Program
		The total length of the river is 2940 kilometers, of which 1160 are situated inside Iraq.
		The average annual runoff of the river at the Turkish-Syrian border, before the building of the dams for irrigation projects in Turkey, was 30.4 BCM.
		The two rivers and their tributaries are controlled by 25 dams and dikes in addition to 275 irrigation-pumping stations.
	www.iraqmarshes.org /Activities/devbacktigris.htm (302 words)

	Managing water for peace in the Middle East
		The valleys of the two rivers encompass the northern portion of the famous "Fertile Crescent," the birthplace of the Mesopotamian civilizations.
		The main sources of the Euphrates river flows in Turkey are found in the four tributaries, all of which originate at altitudes of about 3,000 m or more in the mountainous areas of eastern Turkey.
		The river slope from the headwaters to Attock is approximately 1/ 300; from Attock to Mithankot it is 1/4,000; and from Mithankot to the sea it averages 1/7,000.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/80858e/80858E04.htm (4701 words)

	Memphis Boxing Fights FedEx Forum Events Bouts Beale Street Entertainment Main Event Fight Results
		In his first fight since his epic loss to Miguel Cotto in June, three-time world champion Zab "Super" Judah (34-5, 25 KOs) was forced to go the distance against Edwin Vasquez (22-10, 8 KOs) on Friday night at the Hard Rock LIVE in Biloxi, Mississippi.
		Zab is a three time world champion, on any given night at his best he can beat any of the welterweights out there today, Judah hurt Cotto in the first and third rounds and dropped Mayweather, although the ref declared it a slip.
		Further, Zab Judah's younger brother Yosef Judah from Brooklyn, New York and Tim Van Newhouse from Cleveland, OH will be making their pro debuts to complete the six bout card.
	www.memphisboxing.com (9645 words)

	Bakhma, Dukan and Darbandikhan dams (Important Birds Areas of Iraq)
		Dukan (36Â°10'N 44Â°55'E, c.25,000 ha) is in the Lesser Zab river valley, and Darbandikhan (35Â°10'N 45Â°45'E, c.7,500 ha) is in the Diyala river valley.
		Contrary to most maps, construction of the Bakhma dam (36Â°45'N 44Â°15'E) in the Great Zab river valley has not been completed, having presumably been abandoned in 1991, and there is as yet no lake there.
		The three river valleys supported large numbers of wintering ducks in the 1960s (Savage 1968).
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=8024&m=0 (315 words)

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		The advice about wet towels may well have saved the lives of Nasrin and her family, since the wind blew the gas straight across the Lesser Zab river where she had fled, and one bomb even fell in the water.
		Some, operating out of Koysinjaq, attacked the villages along the north bank of the river; others converged on the south bank from Suseh and Chamchamal; two convoys moved out of Taqtaq, one headed north toward Koysinjaq, and the other crossing the river and cutting through the area inhabited by the Sheikh Bzeini tribe.
		To the north of the Lesser Zab, it was much the same story, as one village after another was captured and demolished by the task forces operating out of Koysinjaq.
	hrw.org /reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFAL6.htm (8111 words)

	Ethnologue report for Iraq
		Central Najdi is spoken by Bedouin in the western desert, North Najdi by Bedouin in the south between the rivers up to the Syrian border.
		Northern Kurdish is spoken north of the Great Zab River, in Dohuk and Mosul provinces.
		Speech varieties, such as Surchi, sharing elements of both Northern and Central Kurdish, are spoken near the Great Zab River.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Iraq (853 words)

	Stars and Stripes: Iraq projects focus on getting clean water out of the ground, to the people
		The tanks cause heavy debris in water pulled from the Zab River to settle before the water is pumped through a fine sand and charcoal filter.
		The site, which sits on the bank of the Zab River, looks quite out of place on the dry, hilly landscape dotted with bushes and patches of trees.
		When complete, the plant will pull water from the Zab River into a tank where it is pumped through the clarifiers to remove heavy debris.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=30910 (867 words)

	Is Hussein Owner of Crashed UFO? - Pravda.Ru
		The citadel stands on a hill surrounded with vertical precipices on three sides; the precipices plunge down to the Little Zab river.
		Luckless intruders hear just some strange sound from behind stones, then a pincer crushes their necks, another pincer crushes their legs; then the victims is slammed to the ground and beaten with a barbed tail six or seven times.
		Joseph Trainor came to a conclusion that something strange is actually happening in the valley of the Little Zab river, but it is not clear what exactly.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2003/01/31/42821.html (1442 words)

	St. Louis - Best Of - Sports & Recreation (2006)
		Eating nothing but apples in the days leading up to his February 2005 title defense, Spinks was no match for a fresh Zab Judah.
		Francis Park eliminates all but the humidity with its eight well-manicured free courts, at least a couple of which are usually available.
		Saddle a two-wheeler under the magnificent shadow of the Gateway Arch — specifically, at the intersection of Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and Biddle Street, the exact point where the locally maintained Riverfront Trail segues into the Mississippi River Trail, governed by a multistate...
	bestof.riverfronttimes.com /bestof/section.php?section=oid:29271 (1802 words)

	Ze: The Immortal water, eternal source - Turkish Daily News Aug 28, 1998
		Therefore, a bridge should be constructed on the Great Zab, not on the Bosphorus." As the discussions gained new dimensions, a group of youngsters from various universities, including Deniz Gezmis, the leader of Turkish students of the generation of '68, went to Hakkari and built a hanging bridge on the Great Zab.
		Most of the things that were written about Hakkari and Zab were in novels that told of country life and the traditions of the rural areas, written by Turkish intellectuals that came to the area for obligatory reasons, such as appointment or exile.
		Oktay called Great Zab the "Beach of the Unlucky Dead," and told the story of people who went down to the valley to see their dead when the water of the Great Zab receded in the summer time.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=8648 (2300 words)

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