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• The noria is a water powered machine that is most suitable in areas where there are fast flowing streams whose courses are some distance below the surrounding fields.
• "noria," as it was called in the book, in front of the camp.
• From your link: The largest noria in the world, with a diameter of about 20 meters, is located in the Syrian city of Hama.
• …Norias later became more widespread during the Muslim Agricultural Revolution and were in large-scale use in the medieval Islamic world,2 where Muslim engineers made a number...