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The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt (250 miles to the south of Cairo).[1]

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  1. 13 relations: Aswan Dam, Aswan Low Dam, Asyut, Cairo, Egypt, Ibrahimiya Canal, John Aird & Co., KfW, Nile, Puddling (civil engineering), Reservoir, Upper Egypt, William Willcocks.

  2. 1903 establishments in Egypt
  3. Barrages (dam)
  4. Dams completed in 1903
  5. Dams in Egypt
  6. Dams on the Nile
  7. Masonry dams

Aswan Dam

The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Assiut Barrage and Aswan Dam are dams in Egypt and dams on the Nile.

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Aswan Low Dam

The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Assiut Barrage and Aswan Low Dam are dams in Egypt, dams on the Nile and masonry dams.

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Asyut

AsyutAlso spelled Assiout or Assiut.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Ibrahimiya Canal

The Ibrahimiyah Canal is an irrigation canal in Egypt built in 1873 during the reign of Ismail Pasha as Khedive of Egypt, the most important public work executed under the new Ministry of Public Works.

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John Aird & Co.

John Aird & Co. was once a leading British civil engineering business based in London.

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KfW

The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Puddling (civil engineering)

Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt (صعيد مصر, shortened to الصعيد,, locally) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam).

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William Willcocks

Sir William Willcocks (27 September 1852 in India – 28 July 1932 in Cairo, Egypt) was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire.

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See also

1903 establishments in Egypt

Barrages (dam)

Dams completed in 1903

Dams in Egypt

Dams on the Nile

Masonry dams

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiut_Barrage