17/06/2022
Situated on the banks of the Orontes River...
water wheels in Hama
were made to be a part of a very ancient irrigation system. The main purpose for it was to move water through the aqueducts.
First the ancient city of Hama is an important industrial and agricultural center that dates back to the early Iron Age. Although the city’s economy had always depended on agriculture, evidence of when Hama water wheels, or norias, were first developed goes back only to the Byzantine Era.
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