Zab
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Geography

  • Great Zab
    Great Zab
    The Great Zab , , , ) is an approximately long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq. It rises in Turkey near Lake Van and joins the Tigris in Iraq south of Mosul. The drainage basin of the Great Zab covers approximately , and during its course, the rivers collects the water from a large number...

    , a tributary to the Tigris
  • Little Zab
    Little Zab
    The Little Zab , , ) originates in Iran and joins the Tigris in Iraq. The river is approximately long and drains an area of c. . The river is fed by rainfall and snowmelt, resulting in a peak discharge in spring and low water in summer and early fall...

    , a tributary to the Tigris
  • M'zab
    M'zab
    The M'zab or Mzab, , is a region of the northern Sahara, in the Ghardaïa wilaya, an administrative division similar to a province, of Algeria...

    , a region in Algeria
  • Zweibrücken Air Base
    Zweibrücken Air Base
    Zweibrücken Air Base was a NATO air base in West Germany . It was located 35 miles SSW of Kaiserslautern and 2 miles mi SE of Zweibrücken. It was assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States Air Forces in Europe during its operational lifetime.The facility was closed in...

     (ZAB), a former air base in West Germany
  • Ząb
    Zab, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
    Ząb is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poronin, within Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately west of Poronin, north of Zakopane, and south of the regional capital Kraków....

    , a village in Poland

History

  • Battle of the Zab
    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. It spelled the end of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasids, a dynasty that would last until the 13th century.-Background:A serious rebellion had broken out in 747 against...

    , a battle between the Abbasids and Umayyads that took place by the Great Zab in 750

Persons

  • Zab Judah
    Zab Judah
    Zabdiel Judah is an American professional boxer. Judah has won five world titles between the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions, and is a former undisputed welterweight champion....

     ("Super"), American world champion junior welterweight & world champion welterweight boxer
  • Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Abbreviations

  • zab, the ISO 639-3 code for the San Juan Guelavía Zapotec language
  • ZAB
    Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center
    Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center is located at 8000 Louisiana Boulevard, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The Albuquerque ARTCC is one out of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States....

    , an air traffic control center in the United States
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