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A mid-2020 article in the on-line English language magazine Arab Weekly interviewed traditional noria craftsmen who were restoring Hama's Noria al-Muhammadiya and also a Hama official responsible for the norias. While local citizen initiatives to revive the norias were underway, it was proving difficult for lack of money for materials and a ...
The norias of Hama on the Orontes River in Syria ().. A noria (Arabic: ناعورة, nā‘ūra, plural نواعير nawāʿīr, from Syriac: ܢܥܘܪܐ, nā‘orā, lit. "growler") is a hydropowered scoop wheel used to lift water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or to supply water to cities and villages.
View of the noria from the city side: the horseshoe arch on the left is all that remains of the former aqueduct which brought water from the wheel to the palace. The exact history and origins of the Noria of Albolafia are not clear, [5] although it is known that norias of this kind were a common feature of hydraulic technology across much of the historic Islamic world, including Al-Andalus.
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Norea is a figure in Gnostic cosmology. She plays a prominent role in two surviving texts from the Nag Hammadi library.In Hypostasis of the Archons, she is the daughter of Adam and Eve and sister of Seth.
The term noria is commonly used for devices which use the power of moving water to turn the wheel instead. [14] Other types of similar devices are grouped under the name of chain pumps . A noria in contrast uses the water power obtained from the flow of a river.