Zagros Mountains
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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Shortly thereafter, Kassites from the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Iran conquered Babylon and southern Mesopotamia and settled there, unlike the Hittites who had returned to their Anatolian home.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Also on Saturday amid the regional tensions, Iranian state television aired footage of what it described as a “top secret” underground tunnel in the heart of the country’s western Zagros Mountains.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2022
If you want a sense of the dizzying weight of history a person often feels in the Zagros Mountains, consider that al-Hamawi was born in 1179.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
It’s fed by the Halwan River, another tributary of the Tigris that begins in Iran’s portion of the Zagros Mountains.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2021
After a siege of thirteen years, the city seems to have fallen into the hands of the Babylonian king, and his authority was now undisputed from the Zagros Mountains to the Mediterranean.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness
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