Crossword-Solution: ZAGROS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The hordes probably swarmed down from Media through the Zagros passes into the most fruitful portion of the empire--the flat country between the mountains and the Tigris.

One of these lay along the north-eastern frontier on the farther slopes of the Zagros mountains and on the plateau beyond.

The East began to know and fear the combination under the name _Manda_, and from Shalmaneser II onwards the Assyrian kings had to devote ever more attention to the Manda country, raiding it, sacking it, exacting tribute from it, but all the while betraying their growing consciousness that a grave peril lurked behind Zagros, the peril of the Medes.

East of Assyria proper, the territorial empire of Sargon does not seem to have extended quite up to the Zagros watershed; but his sphere of influence included not only the heads of the Zab valleys, but also a region on the other side of the mountains, reaching as far as Hamadan and south-west Azerbaijan, although certainly not the eastern or northern districts of the latter province, or Kaswan, or any part of the Caspian littoral.

But it was not long ere a sister kingdom established itself in Susiana, or Elam, the fertile tract between the Lower Tigris and the Zagros mountains.