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Ghuta of Damascus, an old irrigation canal, 1963

Ghuta of Damascus, an old irrigation canal, 1963

The farmers of the Ghuta were able to benefit from the Barada and al-‘Awaj rivers in the most possible way, through a water distribution system. The Barada River was divided into seven branches, as well as a subnet of canals covering all the lands of the Ghuta. The inhabitants of the Ghuta did not rely only on the water coming from these two rivers for the irrigation of their orchards, but rather they dug dozens of wells to benefit from the groundwater as well.

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Ghuta of Damascus, an old irrigation canal, 1963

    Place
  • Ghutat Dimashq
    Time Period
  • 1960s, 1963
    Type of Subject
  • Irrigation, Natural & Cultural Landscape, Qanat
    Keywords
  • Architecture
    Place hierarchy
  • World,Asia,Syria,al-Manatiq al-Jabaliyya wa-l-Wahat az-Ziraʿiyya fi Janub Gharb Suriya,Ghutat Dimashq
    Collection
  • Collection Wirth (Eugen)
    Author
  • Eugen Wirth
    Copyright
  • © Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, collection Eugen Wirth (CC-BY-NC-SA)
    EasyDB ID
  • 5959

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