The Tabqa Dam (Arabic: سَدُّ الطَّبْقَةِ, romanized: Sadd aṭ-Ṭabqah, Kurdish: Bendava Tebqa; Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܛܒܩܗ, romanized: Sekro d'Tabqa), or al-Thawra Dam as it is also named (Arabic: سَدُّ الثَّوْرَةِ, romanized: Sadd aṯ-Ṯawrah, Kurdish: Bendava Tewra; Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܬܘܪܗ, romanized: Sekro d'Ṯawra, literally "Dam of the Revolution"), most commonly known as Euphrates Dam (Arabic: سَدُّ الْفُرَاتِ, romanized: Sadd al-Furāt; Kurdish: Bendava Firatê; Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܦܪܬ, romanized: Sekro d'Frot), is an earthen dam on the Euphrates, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) upstream from the city of Raqqa in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. The city of Al-Thawrah is located immediately south of the dam. The dam is 60 metres (200 ft) high and 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) long and is the largest dam in Syria.[1] Its construction led to the creation of Lake Assad, Syria's largest water reservoir. The dam was constructed between 1968 and 1973 with help from the Soviet Union. At the same time, an international effort was made to excavate and document as many archaeological remains as possible in the area of the future lake before they would be flooded by the rising water. When the flow of the Euphrates was reduced in 1974 to fill the lake behind the dam, a dispute broke out between Syria and Iraq (which is downstream) that was settled by intervention from Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union.[2] The dam was originally built to generate hydroelectric power, as well as irrigate lands on both sides of the Euphrates. The dam has not reached its full potential in either of these objectives.[3]
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to capture and secure the Tabqa Dam, al-Thawrah (al-Tabqah), Tabqa Airbase, and the surrounding countryside during the 2016–2017...
Syria-Turkish border. Like the Baath Dam, the Tishrin Dam is also functionally related to the TabqaDam. Construction of the Tishrin Dam was partly motivated by the...
Raqqa Governorate, Syria. It was created in 1974 when construction of the TabqaDam was completed. Lake Assad is Syria's largest lake, with a maximum capacity...
strategic areas, such as Al-Hawl, Shaddadi, Tishrin Dam, Manbij, al-Tabqah, TabqaDam, Baath Dam, and ISIL's former capital of Raqqa. In March 2019, the...
The Battle of Tabqa Airbase refers to a series of clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Syrian Arab Army in August 2014...
300 km) from the city of Uruk. The site is now mostly underwater due to the TabqaDam project. It consists of Habuba Kabira South, which is protoliterate, and...
to 1959. Turkey and Syria completed their first dams on the Euphrates – the Keban Dam and the TabqaDam, respectively – within one year of each other and...
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upward. The Tishrin Dam is a hydroelectric rock-fill dam on the Euphrates, located upstream from the much larger TabqaDam. The dam is 40 metres (130 ft)...
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Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of the TabqaDam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum...
one of several rescue excavations sparked by the construction of the TabqaDam and the resulting Lake Assad. The town's primary god was Dagan. The site...
the TabqaDam, and Tabqa city, according to SOHR and videos posted by rebels. TabqaDam, on the Euphrates river, is the largest hydroelectric dam in Syria...
Governorate, Syria. Second, the TabqaDam (Arabic: سد الطبقة), or al-Thawra Dam as it is also named (Arabic: سد الثورة, literally dam of the revolution) is located...
Euphrates Valley that was to be flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the TabqaDam which was being constructed at that time. He is a member of institutions...
initial salvage excavations in advance of the rising waters of the Syrian TabqaDam project impounding Lake El Assad were undertaken by two French teams,...
the Syrian Euphrates, after the Tishrin Dam, the TabqaDam and the Baath Dam. The proposed location for the dam is the narrow gap in the Euphrates valley...
self-governing sub-regions in the areas of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, and Deir Ez-Zor. The region gained its de facto autonomy in 2012...
important YPJ commanders, and took part in the operations to capture the TabqaDam, Tabqa Airbase, and al-Thawrah city from ISIL. On 25 April 2017, Felat visited...
rescue operation before it was flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the TabqaDam which was being built at that time. The site was excavated by Andrew M...
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