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" Aqueduct - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Glick, Thomas F.
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English
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1060649
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ALei1046
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Glick, Thomas F.
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Aqueduct - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Glick, Thomas F.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,330 words)
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Aqueduct s (Ar. qanṭara , pl. qanāṭir) are water channels. The term refers particularly to water channels elevated on arches, but it can also designate a bridge, or an arched bridge, with a canal on top of it. The design and building techniques for each type were identical. All aqueducts had three components: a tapping system, a conducting system, and a distribution system. Although ethnographic literature, particularly French, may refer to any water-bearing channel, whether a surface or a subterranean installation, as an “aqueduct,” the term is better reserved for
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Islam.
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ALei1046.pdf
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