Zab Explained

Zab or ZAB may refer to:

Geography

• The Zab rivers:
  • Great Zab, or Upper Zab, river tributary to the Tigris
  • Little Zab, or Lower Zab, river tributary to the Tigris
• Al Zab, an Iraqi town at the confluence of the Little Zab with the Tigris
• M'zab, a region in Algeria
• Zab Emirate, a 15th century Algerian state
• Zweibrücken Air Base (ZAB), a former air base in West Germany
• Ząb, a village in Poland

History

• Battle of the Zab, by the Great Zab in 750

People

• Zab Judah, American professional boxer
• Zab Maboungou, Franco-Congolese writer and choreographer

Abbreviations

• zab, the ISO 639-3 code for the San Juan Guelavía Zapotec language
• RU-ZAB, the ISO 3166-2 code for Zabaykalsky Krai
• Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center, New Mexico, US, known as ZAB
• Zookeeper Atomic Broadcast, a consensus protocol used in Apache ZooKeeper