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Mansoura Dam

Field	Value
name	Mansoura Dam
image	Euphrates Lake Tabqa.jpg
image_caption	Mansoura Dam (right), Euphrates Dam (centre), and Euphrates Lake (left) from space, June 1996. North is in the upper left corner of the image.
name_official	سد المنصورة
dam_crosses	Euphrates
res_name	Mansoura Lake
location	Raqqa Governorate, Syria
dam_height	14 m
construction_began	1983
opening	1986
res_capacity_total	0.09 km3
plant_capacity	81 MW
coordinates
location_map	Syria

The Mansoura Dam (), formerly the Baath Dam and the Freedom Dam, is a dam on the Euphrates, located 22 km upstream from the city of Raqqa in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Construction of the dam started in 1983 and was finished in 1986. It is intended to generate hydroelectric power as well as regulate the irregular flow from the Tabqa Dam, which is located 18 km upstream from the Mansoura Dam. These irregularities in the flow from the Tabqa Dam are caused by changes in the electricity demand. The Mansoura Dam is 14 m high and the installed water turbines can generate 81 MW. The storage capacity of the Mansoura Dam Reservoir is 0.09 km3.

The Mansoura Dam is one of three dams on the Syrian Euphrates, the other two being the Tabqa Dam, and the Tishrin Dam 80 km south of the Syria-Turkish border. Like the Baath Dam, the Tishrin Dam is also functionally related to the Tabqa Dam. Construction of the Tishrin Dam was partly motivated by the disappointing performance of the hydroelectric power station in the Tabqa Dam. Before the Syrian civil war, Syria had plans to construct a fourth dam – the Halabiye Dam – on the Euphrates, downstream from the Mansoura Dam. Before its renaming to the Mansoura Dam, the dam was named Freedom Dam by the SDF, and prior to that, was named after the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

Syrian civil war

On 4 February 2013, opposition forces captured the dam, a week before capturing the Tabqa Dam. The Baath Dam was captured from the ISIL by the Syrian Democratic Forces on 4 June 2017. Upon doing so, they renamed it the "Freedom Dam" (; ; ). ISIL used the complex as a prison. In 2019, control of the dam was given by the SDF to the Syrian Ba'athist government after the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria.

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(December 4, 2019). "Syria revives important dam in Al-Raqqa". Al Masdar News.
Al Arabiya. (4 February 2013). "الجيش السوري الحر يقتحم سد "البعث" على الفرات". Al Arabiya.
AP. (February 11, 2013). "Syrian rebels capture country's largest dam". U.S. News & World Report.
(4 June 2017). "U.S.-backed Syrian forces seize dam west of Raqqa from Islamic State: SDF". Reuters.
(2024-02-22). "The ISIS Prison at Mansura Dam: Investigating the Fates of Detainees".

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