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    The Zagros Mountains are a long mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey. The mountain range has a total length of 1,600 km (990...
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    The Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi) is a relatively little-known rodent which was the first species of mouse-like hamster to...
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    the Zagros Mountains – A series of elongated anticlinal domes, mostly formed as detachment folds over underlying thrusts in the foreland of the Zagros collisional...
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    eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to southern Iran. The Zagros Mountains are a belt of folded mountains formed by the collision of the African Plate with the...
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    zircon provenance record of the Zagros mountain building from the Neotethys obduction to the Arabia–Eurasia collision, NW Zagros fold–thrust belt, Kurdistan...
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    between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Köpet Dag to the north, the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus Mountains to the northwest...
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    Mountains form an arc around the Gulf of Antalya. It includes the Akdağlar, Bey Mountains, Katrancık Mountain, Kuyucak Mountains, and Geyik Mountains...
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    area of Iraq near the Iran-Iraq border. The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain. The...
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    central Iraq. Other tributaries join the Tigris from sources in the Zagros Mountains to the east. The rivers flow in a south-easterly direction through...
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    the Balkan Mountains, the Jura and the Zagros mountains. When a fault block is raised or tilted, a block mountain can result. Higher blocks are called horsts...
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    Asbestnaya Mount and Acheshbok Mount, Russia Bolshoy Tkhach Park, Russia Zagros Mountains Native names: Georgian: კავკასიონი, romanized: k'avk'asioni [kʼafkʼasioni]...
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    Russia Verkhoyansk Range, Russia Western Ghats, India Zagros Mountains, Iran, Iraq Zambales Mountains, Philippines Zamboanga Cordilleras, Philippines Alps...
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    highest mountains in Iran include Damavand, Alam-Kuh, Sabalan, Takht-e Soleyman, Azad Kuh, Zard-Kuh, and Shir Kuh. This is a list of mountains in the country...
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    The Zagros fold and thrust belt (Zagros FTB) is an approximately 1,800-kilometre (1,100 mi) long zone of deformed crustal rocks, formed in the foreland...
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    neighbouring steppes to the west of the Euphrates and the western part of the Zagros Mountains are also often included under the wider term Mesopotamia. A further...
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    for Noah's Ark River system of Mesopotamia Euphrates Tigris Taurus / Zagros Mountains Mount Judi See Genesis 11:2 in the King James Bible, following the...
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    that is native to the montane forested areas in the Caucasus and the Zagros Mountains. The bezoar ibex, which weighs around 60 kg (130 lb) is known particularly...
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    the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Hamadan. In the Zagros Mountains, the province covers an area of 19,546 km2. Hamadan province is one...
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    clashed with the Assyrians, their powerful neighbors to the west. The Zagros Mountains and the Iranian Plateau were politically fragmented in the extreme...
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    neighboring steppes to the west of the Euphrates and the western part of the Zagros Mountains are also often included under the wider term Mesopotamia. A further...
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    and mountain ranges extending in the west from the Pyrenees, crossing Southern Europe to Iranian plateau, forming the Alborz and the Zagros Mountains, to...
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    Crescent of Southwest Asia, including the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, the Taurus Mountains, and the highland parts of the Levant. The Hilly Flanks...
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    Arabic: كَهَف شانِدَر) is an archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern...
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    in the Harsin County in east of Kermanshah Province, in the central Zagros Mountains. First discovered in 1965, it was excavated by Canadian archaeologist...
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  • The Turukkaeans were a Bronze and Iron Age people of Zagros Mountains. Their endonym has sometimes been reconstructed as Tukri. Turukkum was regarded by...
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  • romanized: Kýrtioi, Latin: Cyrtii) were an ancient tribe in historic Iran near Zagros Mountains. Based on their name, it has been suggested that they may be ancestors...
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    graves at Mehrgarh bear strong resemblance to those at Ali Kosh in the Zagros Mountains of southern Iran. Despite their scarcity, the Carbon-14 and archaeological...
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    origin and related to the subduction of the Arabian Plate under the Zagros Mountains. The current flooding of the basin started 15,000 years ago due to...
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    and Sasanian empires. It is believed that Ecbatana is located in the Zagros Mountains, the east of central Mesopotamia, on Hagmatana Hill (Tappe-ye Hagmatāna)...
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    Ovis orientalis isphahanica by Nasonov in 1910 for wild sheep in the Zagros Mountains. Five mouflon subspecies are distinguished by MSW3: Armenian mouflon...
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