Aswan Low Dam

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The Aswan Low Dam is an earlier masonry gravity dam on the Nile River in Egypt, built by the British at the start of the 20th century to control flooding and support irrigation before the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Aswan Low Dam salvage excavations	1
Old Aswan Dam	1

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aswan Governorate → containsDam → Aswan Low Dam ⓘ

Ballana → discoveredDuring → Aswan Low Dam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aswan Low Dam salvage excavations

First Cataract of the Nile → near → Aswan Low Dam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Aswan Dam

Aswan High Dam → nearbyStructure → Aswan Low Dam ⓘ

Aswan High Dam → replacedFunctionOf → Aswan Low Dam ⓘ