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The first of the twelfth century AD, mentions how the people of Homs drank and the source of their water. As for (1) Al-Idrisi, the second half of it, there is a document, which is the text that he mentioned in his book (Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi Penetrating the Horizons), and he visited Homs before it was hit by an earthquake (552 AH). = 1157 AD), and we did not find a copy of Al-Idrisi’s book in Homs, so we were satisfied with what (Ahmed Wasfi Zakaria) reported about him in his book (An Archaeological Tour).

As for the land of Homs, its city is Homs, and it is a beautiful, flat land. It is full of people and travelers come to it with luggage and goods of every kind. Its markets are established and the pleasures of its people are constant. Their fertility is plentiful and their livelihood is cheap. Its women are beautiful and beautiful in complexion. Its people drink abundant water from a canal near the village of (Josiah). ), and the city is at a stage next to Damascus. (2) Ahmed Wasfi comments on this: The Jose Canal used to come and flow into a tank located to the east of the English School, that is, the Evangelical School now in Bab al-Sa’a, and from there it was distributed to all the neighborhoods of the town, and the red pottery pipes are still visible in many places in most parts of Homs. In the year 1323 AH = 1905 AD, the Homsians drained the water of this canal, as it had been in the past, and they collected money for it, but they refrained when they saw the greatness of the project and their inability to accomplish it. Ahmed Wasfi’s visit to Homs was in the early thirties of this century.

A reference was made after that in the book Subh al-A’sha by al-Qalqashandi. Its kingship in the Ayyubid state will have power to be feared and power to be feared, and it is in an expanse of land extending close to the Orontes River, and its people drink from it, and it has water from it that is raised, and it flows to the courthouse in it, and to some places in it.” He did not mention the place where the water was taken from the Orontes or the means. Through which water was raised to Homs, the location of the prosecution house there is not yet known.

2- Sakia:

It emerges from Lake Qatina and is surrounded to the east by orchards located on the right bank of the Orontes River between the dam and Homs, passing through the villages of: (Tal al-Shur), (Jobar), and (Baba Amr), Homs. It is a subsidiary part of the old dam project and is not an independent project from it.

Those who built the old dam included in their calculations the irrigation of the orchards located on the right bank of the river between the dam and Homs. This is indicated by a careful study of the plan of the old dam and the lands surrounding it issued by the Survey and Homs District Authority (1933) during the French mandate over Syria, and a measure that means that all One millimeter on the photographer is equal to (2) meters on the ground.

The outlet of the old waterwheel from the sea did not exceed two meters in width, and it was not perpendicular to the body of the old dam, but rather inclined to it at an angle (35). Since the water passed the outlet, its course became parallel to the body of the old dam, which protected it from the waves of the sea, and it traveled in its direction from the northwest to the southeast. It cuts (240) meters and deviates towards the east towards Tal Al-Shur. The width of the old stream in that area was (9) metres. Far from Tal Al-Shur, the modern stream becomes a few meters east of the old stream, and some traces of the old stream are still somewhat visible in the place that used to call it. People of (Tel Shur) B: Al-Tabnah: That is, the place where the stream of Al-Saqiya narrows and where residents can hold water behind wooden beams to raise its level in that area until the water reaches the distribution throat. In fact, most of the route of the modern Saqiyya follows its old route, except in some places where the distances were shortened, as is the case in Tal al-Shur and at Baba Amr. After that, the old Saqiyya headed northward until it reached the old Tripoli Road at the Beit Darraq Gas Station today. It crosses the road from under the third bridge, then heads towards the east, parallel to the visit of the Mufti from the south, then heads towards the south-east, crossing the Old Tripoli Road again, under the second bridge, and then heads towards the east for about (200) meters, then heads towards the north, crossing the Tripoli Road a third time. At the first bridge (see the photographer), then Al-Saqia continues its path towards the north, passing the following bridges: (Al-Najdi) Bridge. The orchards located west of this section between the first bridge and Al-Najdi Bridge are called (Zor Al-Najdi) (1) and then (Al-Kharab) Bridge, which leads to Al-Kharab Mill. On the Orontes, then the Hamra Bridge, after it the New Bridge, and then you enter the garden of the house of Rizq Salloum = (currently Al-Kadrinia). Then its waters are distributed to 1) The name of the surveying figures was given by the name (Zor) (Al-Najdah) and this is an error because Al-Zor is attributed to (Faris Bey Al-Najdi) as mentioned in the document dated Dhul-Qi’dah (1277) AH: (1860) AD.