Atatürk Dam
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atat-rk-dam-183-353439
title:
Atatürk Dam
text:
The Atatürk Dam, originally the Karababa Dam, is the third largest dam in the world and it is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Built both to generate electricity and to irrigate the plains in the region, it was renamed in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), the founder of the Turkish Republic. The construction began in 1983 and was completed in 1990. T
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Dam in Şanlıurfa-Adıyaman, Turkey
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_Dam
date created:
2005-06-25T18:47:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T19:12:39Z
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