Zab may refer to:
Geography
*The Zab rivers:
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Great Zab
The Great Zab or Upper Zab ( (''al-Zāb al-Kabīr''), or , , ''(zāba ʻalya)'') 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 o ...
, or Upper Zab, river tributary to the Tigris
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Little Zab
The Little Zab or Lower Zab (, ''al-Zāb al-Asfal''; or '; , ''Zâb-e Kuchak''; , ''Zāba Taḥtāya'') is a river that originates in Iran and joins the Tigris just south of Al Zab in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It is approximately long and dr ...
, or Lower Zab, river tributary to the Tigris
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Al Zab, an Iraqi town at the confluence of the Little Zab with the Tigris
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M'zab, a region in Algeria
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Zab Emirate, a 15th century Algerian state
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Zweibrücken Air Base (ZAB), a former air base in West Germany
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Ząb, a village in Poland
History
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Battle of the Zab
The Battle of the Zab ( ar, معركة الزاب), also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the Great Zāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on the banks of the Great Zab River in what is now the modern country of Iraq. It spel ...
, by the Great Zab in 750
People
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Zab Judah, American professional boxer
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Zab Maboungou, Franco-Congolese writer and choreographer
Abbreviations
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zab, the ISO 639-3 code for the San Juan Guelavía Zapotec language
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RU-ZAB, the ISO 3166-2 code for
Zabaykalsky Krai
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Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAB) is located at 8000 Louisiana Boulevard, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The Albuquerque ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States.
The primary responsibilit ...
, New Mexico, US, known as ZAB
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