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A wheel in Rabat, Morocco
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Water-lifting wheel in operation in Rabat 1920
This old photo shows how the wheel was working in Rabat in 1920.
[92]		 The wheel or noria in Rabat
This is the same wheel as in [92] but forty years later. During that time, some of the wooden pots have been replaced, but the rim around the well is the same.
[93] FAO photo.
 The noria wheel in Morocco
The wooden cogs have been replaced by some of iron.
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The wheel in a park in Rabat
Close up of the pot-garland wheel.
[95]		 The famous noria in Rabat
In Spain and Morocco this type of water-lifting wheel is called a noria.
The big wheels in Hama are also called noria or to be exact: the hydraulic noria.
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