This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. The dam, which is located 30 miles (50 km) upriver from the town of Ar-Raqqah, was begun in 1968.

It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East.

Euphrates Dam, also called Ṭabaqah, or Tabqa, Dam, dam on the Euphrates River in north-central Syria. At 230 meters high, it would be the largest yet in Iraq. The Kurds want to complete the half-built Bekhme Dam on a tributary of the Tigris in Iraq close to the Turkish border. The first dam that could be described as a large dam in this sense is the Hoover Dam built in the United States on the Colorado River in the 1930s. Download the file: PDF (english) The transboundary river basin profile is a summary of key information that gives an overview of the water resources and water use at the river basin level, including the transboundary water issues.

"They (Turkey) are building a large number of dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

The lower portion of the region that they define, known as Mesopotamia (Greek: “Land Between the

Euphrates-Tigris River Basin Year: 2009. And both Turkey and Iran are capturing ever more of the flows of rivers that drain into Iraq, with Turkey building dams on both the Tigris and Euphrates. Dams of such scale are generally referred to as ‘large dams’.

Its construction prompted an intense archaeological excavation of the area around the town of Ṭabaqah. Articles pertaining to dams in operation, under construction or planning in the Tigris–Euphrates river system in the Middle Eastern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq or Iran.. Subcategories.

Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of southwestern Asia.