Buhayrat al Asad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River. map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define...
In 1973, Syria completed construction of the Tabaqah Dam on the Euphrates River upstream from the town of Ar Raqqah. The dam created a reservoir named Lake Assad (Buhayrat al Assad), a body of water about 80 kilometers long and averaging eight kilometers in width. Tabaqah Dam and Lake Assad from space, June 1996 The Tabaqah Dam (sometimes called the Euphrates Dam) is an earth filled dam nearly 197 feet (60 meters) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at 36°0â²N 38°35â²E) in Syria. ... Ar Raqqah (ﺍﻟﺮﻗﺔ; also spelled Rakka), city in north central Syria, capital of the Raqqah province, located on the north bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 km east of Aleppo. ...