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    A sāqiyah or saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also spelled sakia or saqia) is a mechanical water lifting device. It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat...
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    water to turn the wheel. For devices powered by animals, the usual term is saqiyah or saqiya. Other types of similar devices are grouped under the name of...
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    el Hamra [saˈɣi.a el ˈxamɾa] , Arabic: الساقية الحمراء, romanized: al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a, lit. 'Red Canal') was, with Río de Oro, one of the two territories...
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    developed a type of water wheel or scoop wheel, the saqiyah, named kolē by the Kush. The saqiyah was developed during the Meroitic period to improve irrigation...
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    ġunġlien giuggiulena جنجلان (junjulān) sesame seed sieqja saia ساقية (sāqiyah) canal kenur tannura تنور (tannūr) oven żagħfran zaffarana زعفران (zaʿfarān)...
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    early 11th century, Ibn Bassal pioneered the use of flywheel in noria and saqiyah. The use of the flywheel as a general mechanical device to equalize the...
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    demonstrates improvements in animal husbandry and in irrigation such as with the saqiyah waterwheel. These changes made agriculture far more productive, supporting...
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    word acequia (and the Catalan word séquia) originate from Arabic word al-sāqiyah (الساقیة) which has more than one meaning: "the water conduit" or "one...
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    be compensated for at the beginning of the first century AD, when the saqiyah waterwheel was developed. Until then, the area was only sparsely populated...
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    الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب, romanized: al-Jabhah ash-Shaʿbiyah Li-Taḥrīr as-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrāʾ wa Wādī adh-Dhahab), is a Sahrawi nationalist liberation movement...
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    اتحاد شبيبة الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب, romanized: Ittiḥād Shabībat al-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrāʼ wa-Wādī al-Dhahab), also known by its Spanish acronym UJSARIO...
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  • as-saniyah (السانية) "the lifter." acequia: irrigation canal. From Arabic as-saqiyah (الساقية) "the irrigator"[ʔlsaːqj] (listen). acerola: fruit of the trees...
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  • {\displaystyle \sin ^{2}\left({\frac {x}{2}}\right)={\frac {1-\cos(x)}{2}}} . Saqiyah: Paddle-driven water-lifting wheels had appeared in ancient Egypt by the...
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  • ISBN 1-4175-2290-9. OCLC 56131464. Abu Salim, Muhammad Ibrahim (1980). al-Saqiyah. Khartoum: Maʻhad al-Dirāsāt al-Afrīqīyah al-Āsyawīyah. Asad, Talal (1966)...
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  • Samannud Samuel Birch (Egyptologist) Sanakht Sandal-bearer Sankhenre Sewadjtu Saqiyah Saqqara Saqqara Bird Saqqara ostracon Saqqara Tablet Sara Yorke Stevenson...
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    (warm room) and caldarium (hot room), with attached furnace, water well, sāqiyah or water-lifting device, and raised water tank. In terms of decoration...
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  • Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia – The growth of small towns in Libya) Dār al-Sāqiyah lil-Nashr, Benghazi, pp. 118–123, ISBN 978-9959-854-10-0 Al Qayqab (Approved)...
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    Āl ash-Sharīf, claim descent, saying he was a Maghrebi Arab from the as-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrā’, from which his nisba, or onomastic for place of descent, seen...
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  • is also the commander of the army, rests with his retinue by a saqiyah. By the saqiyah, three sisters are talking to each other, all of them wishing to...
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