Jabal Zambar (Arabic: جبل زمبر) is a large hill in the Tel Afar District of Nineveh Province of northern Iraq. The name may also be rendered as Jabal or Jebel Sinbar, Zinbar or Zinbār, or Zambar Mountain.
| Jabal Zambar | |
|---|---|
  Jabal Zambar | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 543 metres (1,781 ft) |
| Coordinates | 36°21′36″N 42°32′17″E[1] |
| Naming | |
| Native name | جبل زمبر (Arabic) |
| Geography | |
| Location | Tel Afar District of Nineveh Province of northern Iraq |
Geography
Jebel Zambar is in a transitional folded zone between the alpinotype area to the northeast and the Arabian Shield to the southwest.[2] This area holds the major anticlinal structures between the Tigris and the Al-Tharthar basin.[3] The zone includes Jebel Sinjar, Jebel Sinu, Jebel Sasan, Jebel Zambar, Jebel Sheik Ibrahim and Jebel Adaiya.[4] The Jebels Zambar and Ibrahim are sometimes treated as one structure.[5]
The Sanjar-Zambar mountain range includes the Teymurlenk (Tamerlane) hills, which contain the Turkmen city of Tal Afar.[6] Jabal Zambar is the highest point in the hilly area to the east of Tal Afar.[3] It is about 543 metres (1,781 ft) above sea level.[7] A shallow saddle to the northwest of Jebel Zambar divides it from the similar Jebel Sasan structure, which is about 10 by 7 kilometres (6.2 by 4.3 mi) in extent.[2]
History
In the late 1930s Germans drilled wells on the Zambar and Qusair structures west of Mosul towards Sinjar.[8] A feasibility study of the Mosul Dam project was to include a study of irrigating the northern catchment area of the Tharthar depression. This would include construction of a water supply tunnel under Jabal Zambar.[9] On 7 January 2006 twelve U.S, military personnel died when their UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed on Zambar Mountain.[10][11]
References
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