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Kılavuzlu Dam

dam in Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ2885200 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kılavuzlu Dam is an embankment dam on the Ceyhan River in Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Constructed between 1996 and 2001, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. The dam supports a 54 MW power station and supplies water for the irrigation of 178,000 hectares (440,000 acres).

Editorial summary

“Kılavuzlu Dam” enters the record as dam in Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kılavuzlu and Turkey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kılavuzlu and Turkey.
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“Kılavuzlu Dam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kılavuzlu and Turkey provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2885200. Authority coordinates are 37.626, 36.803. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kılavuzlu Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.