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Aswan Dam (Egypt)

LC control no.sh 00005032
Geographic headingAswan Dam (Egypt)
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Geographic subdivision usageEgypt--Aswan Dam
Variant(s)Assouan Dam (Egypt)
Assuan Dam (Egypt)
Khazzān Aswān (Egypt)
See alsoDams--Egypt
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the dam built in 1898-1902. Works on the dam completed in 1971 are entered under Aswan High Dam (Egypt).
Subject example tracingNote under Aswan High Dam (Egypt)
Found inWork cat.: The archaeological survey of Nubia, 1907-1908: v. 1, p. iii (Aswan Dam, on the Nile, completed 1902)
GEOnet, Dec. 15, 1999 (Aswan, Khazzan [Arabic]; Aswan Dam [conventional]; dam, 24⁰02ʹN, 32⁰52ʹE)
Columbia gaz.: p. 183, mentioned under entries for Aswan [city] and Aswan High Dam (Aswan Dam, 3 mi. S of city, completed 1902, enl. 1934; Aswan High Dam is 4 mi. S of Aswan Dam)
The similarity of motion of water ... with models of sluices of the Assuan Dam, 1921.
Web. geog. (Aswan; Assouan; Assuan)
GEOnet dam; 24°02ʹ00ʺN 032°52ʹ00ʺE