| Alpu Dam | |
|---|---|
  Location of Alpu Dam in Turkey | |
| Location | Tokat Province, Turkey |
| Construction began | 1998 |
| Opening date | 2002 |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Impounds | Alpu Creek |
| Height | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Dam volume | 1,790 dam3 (63,000,000 cu ft) |
| Reservoir | |
| Total capacity | 19.38 hm3 (0.00465 cu mi) |
| Surface area | 1.10 km2 (0.42 sq mi) |
| Website www.alpu_dam | |
Alpu Dam (Turkish : Alpu Barajı) is a dam in Tokat Province, Turkey, built between 1998 and 2002.
Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around ten to fifteen million native speakers in Southeast Europe and sixty to sixty-five million native speakers in Western Asia. Outside Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state.
Tokat Province is a province in northern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Amasya to the northwest, Yozgat to the southwest, Sivas to the southeast, and Ordu to the northeast. Its capital is Tokat, which lies inland of the middle Black Sea region, 422 kilometers from Ankara.
Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Ankara is its capital but Istanbul is the country's largest city. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.
