Hindiya Barrage
The Hindiya Barrage is a barrage on the Euphrates south of the town of Musayyib in Babil Governorate of Iraq. Located north of the Al-Hindiya District, it was designed by British civil engineer William Willcocks in response to the silting up of the Hillah branch of the Euphrates.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: Barrage in the Euphrates in Iraq
- Also known as: “Hindīyah”, “Hindiyah Barrage”, and “Saddat al Hindiyah”
Hindiya Barrage
- Location: Karbala Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Hindiya Barrage” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سدة الهندية”
- Cebuano: “Saddat al Hindīyah”
- Dutch: “Hindiyabarrage”
- French: “barrage de Hindiya”
- French: “Barrage de hindiya”
- French: “Barrage de Hindiya”
- German: “Al-Hindiyya-Kanal”
- German: “Hindiyya-Kanal”
- German: “Indischer Kanal”
- Italian: “diga di Hindiya”
- Italian: “Diga di Hindiya”
- Italian: “Hindiya (diga)”
- Japanese: “ヒンディヤ堰”
- Japanese: “新ヒンディーヤ・ダム”
- Persian: “سد هاندییا”
- Swedish: “Hindiyadammen”
- Swedish: “Saddat al Hindīyah”
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