Water wheel, Cordoba, Spain
Islamic water wheel (noria), downstream the roman bridge on the Guadalquivir river, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain; This water wheel was in fact a roman mill to which a wheel was placed at the time of Abd-al-Rahman II (790 ? 852 AD) to raise the water of the river to the Caliphal Palace converted into the Episcopal Palace by the Catholic Kings. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13419701
Media ID
45095576
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3328px x 4992px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
