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Aswan High Dam
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Aswan High Dam
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(Placename) a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft.)
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Noun1.Aswan High Dam - one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern EgyptAswan High Dam - one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
High Dam
Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
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From ancient construction to modern, we also visited the impressive Aswan Dam.
River relics and resorts; FROM fact-finding at ancient sites to ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Lieberman is mostly remembered in Egypt for his bellicose 1998 proposal that Israel bomb the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Egypt's support for Yasser Arafat.
Lieberman's wily African adventure by Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Thirty years later Sudan and Egypt amended the agreement that enabled the construction of the Aswan dam close to the borders between the two countries.
Ethiopia says all Nile states agreed on NBI, but not Sudan and Egypt by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
 
 
 
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