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The norias of Hama are giant wooden waterwheels built along the Orontes River to lift water into aqueducts for irrigation, some designs dating back centuries. This photograph, taken in 2006, shows one of the historic wheels in the Syrian city of Hama.

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Hama, Norias (hölzerne Schöpfräder) schaufeln quietschend das Wasser aus dem Orontes in die Aquädukte, Hama, 2006

Hama, Norias (hölzerne Schöpfräder) schaufeln quietschend das Wasser aus dem Orontes in die Aquädukte 2006 The norias of Hama are giant wooden waterwheels built along the Orontes River to lift water into aqueducts for irrigation, some designs dating back centuries. This photograph, taken in 2006, shows one of the historic wheels in the Syrian city of Hama.

Hama, Norias (hölzerne Schöpfräder) schaufeln quietschend das Wasser aus dem Orontes in die Aquädukte 2006 Hama's wooden noria waterwheels, among the largest surviving examples in the world, were still turning on the Orontes River when this photograph was taken in 2006, feeding stone aqueducts that once supplied the city and its farmland.