The Khazir River () is a river Locate in Kurdistan Region, a tributary of the Great Zab river, joining its right bank.
Geomorphology The area around the Khazir River is geologically activeZiyad Elia, The Neotectonic Activity Along the Lower Khazir River by Using SRTM Image and Geomorphic Indices Earth Sciences 2015; 4(1): 50-58 . and crosses three anticlines from the north to the south and this has greatly affected the course of the river. The river has a catchment of 2,900 km. The net yearly recharge rate of the valley water table is 111.6 mm/yearHussein Jassas and Broder Merkel, Estimating Groundwater Recharge in the Semiarid Al-Khazir Gomal Basin, North Iraq, Water 2014, 6(8), 2467-2481Hussein A. Jassas & Broder J. Merkel, Investigating groundwater recharge by means of stable isotopes in the Al-Khazir Gomal Basin, northern Iraq Environmental Earth Sciences June 2015, Volume 73, Issue 12, pp 8533-8546.Investigating groundwater recharge by means of stable isotopes in the Al-Khazir Gomal Basin, northern Iraq, Environmental Earth Sciences June 2015, Volume 73, Issue 12, pp 8533-8546. and the region is considered to be fertile.The Khirpa Zhuri - Khirpa Zheri - Perkholy - Lakan - Esmawa Local Road, The Duhok Governorate (Akree Region). Iraq, 2008.
History 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.Kozłowski, Stefan Karol (1998), "M'lefaat. Early Neolithic site in northern Iraq", Cahiers de l'Euphrate 8: 234,Solecki, Ralph S. (1997). "Shanidar Cave". In Meyers, Eric M. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East 5. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 15–16. Latter the river was part of an irrigation area that supported the Assyrian city of Nimrud.Christopher Davey, The negub Tunnel, Iraq Vol. 47 (1985), pp. 49-55 . Known to the Hellenistic Greeks as the river BoumelusCurtis book 9. or Bumodus, it was the site of the Battle of Gaugamela between Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia.
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,al-Syyed, Kamal. "The Battle of al-Khazir". Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Qum, Iran: Ansariyan Foundation. p. 21.Al-Mukhtār ibn Abū ʿUbayd al-Thaqafi, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2013. 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,Raja Abdulrahim, The Daily Herald 5 October 2014 Iraqi Kurdish forces move toward complex battle in Mosul . where ISIL destroyed bridges built by the Americans 10 years prior.COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY 3 May 2003.
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