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Art/Literary - Agriculture / palmeral | | Spanish term or phrase: cenias | aparato para elevar el agua tomada del rio en un canal de irrigación o drenaje.
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| | water wheels | Explanation:
They are similar to 'norias' (another form of water wheel). There aren't too many references around but I manged to find one at it looks fairly reliable:
Most historians recognize the antecedent water development and irrigation works originated by the Iberians and then the Romans in the centuries prior to the Islamic occupation. However, they also agree that the musulmanes recreated the Roman agrosystems and developed new areas of huerta irrigation through the use of novel hydraulic technologies such as the azudor small scale diversion dam, norias or animal driven wells, and cenias or Persian water wheels. For evidence of the Islamic imprint in Spanish irrigation, historians point to the extensive Arabic terminology and toponyms in the agricultural regions. |
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... through the use of novel hydraulic technologies such as the azud or small scale diversion
dam, norias or animal driven wells, and cenias or Persian water wheels ...
dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/documents/dir0/00/00/ 02/27/dlc-00000227-00/rivieraj041300.pdf - Similar pages
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... betook himself to the service of the garden and the tending of the trees and the
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... through the use of novel hydraulic technologies such as the azud or small scale diversion
dam, norias or animal driven wells, and cenias or Persian water wheels ...
dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/documents/dir0/00/00/ 02/27/dlc-00000227-00/rivieraj041300.pdf - Similar pages
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... or earthen tanks that store surface water for later use, norias or animal driven
wheels used in lifting water, aceñas or Persian water wheels, and qanats or ...
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