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Aswan Dam
- Dam just south of Aswan, a city in southern Egypt (see also Egypt ), on the Nile River . One of the world's largest dams.
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The United States and Britain withdrew financial aid for the dam's construction in 1956, after which the Soviet Union took over much of the financing.
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