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Dara Dam
LocationDara, Turkey
Opening dateCa. 560 AD
Dam and spillways
ImpoundsRiver Cordes

The Dara Dam was a Roman arch dam at Dara in Mesopotamia (modern-day Turkey), a rare pre-modern example of this dam type.[1] The modern identification of its site is uncertain, but may rather point to a common gravity dam.[2]

  1. ^ Smith 1971, pp. 54f.; Schnitter 1987a, p. 13; Schnitter 1987b, p. 80; Hodge 1992, p. 92; Hodge 2000, p. 332, fn. 2
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Garbrecht & Vogel 1991, 266–270 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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