The Khazir River ( Arabic: الخازر) is a river of northern Iraq, a tributary of the Great Zab river, joining its right bank. [1]
The area around the Khazir River is geologically active [2] and crosses three anticlines from the north to the south[ citation needed] and this has greatly affected the course of the river. The river has a catchment of 2,900 km2. [1] The net yearly recharge rate of the valley water table is 111.6 mm/year [3] [4] [5] and the region is considered to be fertile. [6]
At a site called M'lefaat evidence has been found of a small village of hunter-gatherers dating to the 10th millennium BC that was contemporary with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A in the Levant. [7] [8] Latter the river was part of an irrigation area that supported the Assyrian city of Nimrud. [9] Known to the Hellenistic Greeks as the river Boumelus [10] or Bumodus, it was the site of the Battle of Gaugamela between Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia. [11] [12]
In August 686 AD, the river was a site of a battle between the armies of Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, [13] [14] during the revolt of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. On 25 January 750, the Battle of the Zab was fought nearby.
In 2014, following bombing by United States planes, ISIL forces retreated back to the Khazir River, [15] where ISIL destroyed bridges built by the Americans 10 years prior. [16]
The Khazir River ( Arabic: الخازر) is a river of northern Iraq, a tributary of the Great Zab river, joining its right bank. [1]
The area around the Khazir River is geologically active [2] and crosses three anticlines from the north to the south[ citation needed] and this has greatly affected the course of the river. The river has a catchment of 2,900 km2. [1] The net yearly recharge rate of the valley water table is 111.6 mm/year [3] [4] [5] and the region is considered to be fertile. [6]
At a site called M'lefaat evidence has been found of a small village of hunter-gatherers dating to the 10th millennium BC that was contemporary with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A in the Levant. [7] [8] Latter the river was part of an irrigation area that supported the Assyrian city of Nimrud. [9] Known to the Hellenistic Greeks as the river Boumelus [10] or Bumodus, it was the site of the Battle of Gaugamela between Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia. [11] [12]
In August 686 AD, the river was a site of a battle between the armies of Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, [13] [14] during the revolt of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. On 25 January 750, the Battle of the Zab was fought nearby.
In 2014, following bombing by United States planes, ISIL forces retreated back to the Khazir River, [15] where ISIL destroyed bridges built by the Americans 10 years prior. [16]