Lesser Zab - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A river which flows south of Arbela and north of Karka d-Beth Slokh and enters the Tigris above Tagrit.

Names

  • Lesser Zab1
  • الزاب الأسفل3
  • Little Zab River4, 5
  • Lower Zab1

Place Type

river

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 35.8572581° Long. 44.7915335°2
  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 35.6052800000° Long. 43.9458300000°4

Attestation

Attestation of name الزاب الأسفل in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الزاب الأسفل3 3
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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 10, 71, 85, 378map: Map I C2, II C2, IV. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894184