Zagros Mountains
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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However, some ancient accounts point to the incursions of the nomadic Guti tribes, whose original homes were located in the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Iran, northwest of Mesopotamia.
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
To get there, they had to go over the Zagros Mountains, the old frontier between the Persian and Ottoman Empires, a porous border crossed by Kurdish smugglers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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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