Big Zab
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Large Zab Büyükzap, antique: Lykos, Elamunia Kurdish Zêyê Mezin |
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 Location of the Großer Zab and the Kleiner Zab in the Shatt al-Arab river system |
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| location | Turkey , Iraq | |
| River system | Shatt al-Arab | |
| Drain over | Tigris → Shatt al-Arab → Persian Gulf | |
| source | western foothills of the Kotur Mountains ( Taurus Mountains ) 38 ° 22 ′ 48 ″ N , 44 ° 26 ′ 52 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 2600 m | |
| muzzle | south of Mosul in the Tigris Coordinates: 35 ° 59 ′ 43 " N , 43 ° 20 ′ 40" E 35 ° 59 ′ 43 " N , 43 ° 20 ′ 40" E
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| length | 473 km | |
| Catchment area | 26,200 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge near the mouth |
MQ |
403 m³ / s |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Bechme dam | |
| Small towns | Başkale , Barzan | |
 Section of the Great Zab in Erbil |
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The Great Zab ( Arabic الزاب الكبير, DMG az-Zāb al-Kabīr ; Kurdish Zêyê Mezin ), also Oberer Zab ( Arabic الزاب الاعلى, DMG az-Zāb al-Aʿlā , Kurdish : Zê Gewre , Persian زاب بزرگ; Zâb-e Bozorg , Syriac Aramaic : ܙܒܐ ܥܠܝܐ ; Zawa `elaya , Turkish : Büyükzap Suyu , Greek Λύκος , Lykos ; Latin : Lycus , unclear national language according to Akkadian sources: Elamunia ), is a left tributary of the Tigris .
The Great Zab has its source in southeastern Turkey , flows mainly in a southerly direction and flows into the Tigris after 473 km south of Mosul in Iraq .
It roughly forms the border of the Kurdish part of Iraq . On January 16, 750, the Zab was the scene of a battle between the Abbasids and the Umayyads . The Abbasids under Abu l-Abbas as-Saffah defeated the Umayyads under Marwan II decisively and thus brought about a change in the dynasty of the caliphs .
On both sides of the Great Zab, most of the Christian Assyrian tribes lived in Hakkâri until 1915 .
The construction of the Bechme dam began on the Großer Zab . The work has been interrupted, however, and further construction is uncertain.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Großer Zab in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Strabo: Geographika 16, 2
- ^ M. Salvini: Nairi, Na'iri . In: Dietz-Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology , Volume 9: Nab – Nuzi. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p. 90.