Zagros

Zagros (Pers. Patak, Poshtekukh) is located in the southwestern part of the Iranian highlands stretching for a distance of more than 1,500 km from the province of Kurdistan at the border with Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz . The mountain range runs parallel to the Tigris and the Persian Gulf , from which they are 50-100 km away. The highest peak with a height of up to 4548 m (Zerdkuh city). located near the city of Isfahan , south of Shiraz . Zagros on average 1000 m below Zerdkuh.

Geologically , Zagros belongs to the young folded mountain systems that arose in the Miocene ( en: Zagros fold and thrust belt ), like the Pyrenees , Alps , Carpathians , Balkan Mountains and Elburz , and is included in the so-called Mediterranean folded belt . To the east, this mountain belt continues with the Hindu Kush , Karakoram and the Himalayas .

In Iraq, there is the Shanidar Cave, in which the remains of Neanderthals were discovered.

It is assumed that for the first time a man managed to tame goats in the Zagros mountains. In addition, the Zagros region is considered the birthplace of tribes such as the Gutia and Lullubey . In the Assyrian era, the kingdom of Namri was located here.

Strabo claimed that Zagros separated Media from Babylonia ^[2] .

Mountain desert landscapes prevail. In the middle belt of the western, most humid part of Zagros - forests and woodlands of oak, elm, maple, acacia, above - alpine meadows and low-growing shrubbery. Small glaciers. In the intermontane basins there are salt marshes, lakes and oases (date palm, citrus fruits, grapes).

• Qum (river)

• Zagros // Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.