Zab Rivers
ZAB RIVERS
Great Zab of Turkey and Iraq and Little Zab of Iran and Iraq; major tributaries of the Tigris river.
The Great Zab rises in the mountains of southeast Turkey and runs for 260 miles (420 km), flowing southwest into the Tigris below Mosul, Iraq. The Little Zab rises in the Zagros mountains and flows for about 230 miles (368 km) southwest into the Tigris, some 50 miles (80 km) below the Great Zab. Their violent seasonal spring flow contributes about half the flood crest of the Tigris.
Bibliography
Fisher, Sydney N. The Middle East: A History, 3d edition. New York: Knopf, 1979.
john r. clark
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