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The side opposite the Raghadan Hotel from the north, that is, at the corner of Omar Bin Al Khattab Street, which goes to Jouret Al Shiyah and Al Quwatli Street. After its abolition, it was divided into a number of shops selling falafel and a store selling electrical appliances, then it was demolished with others in the architectural mass until the current Directorate of Antiquities building in late July of the current year 1991 in order to organize the heart of the city of Homs.

The water-bearers used to gather in that café, and there were those who would fix their equipment for them by taking, and the basic principle is that they would fill their ports from the Orontes, and it was about three kilometers away from the city, but most of them found it difficult to go to the Orontes and would suffice with fresh water from two takes on the waterwheel of the city to which the king had dragged the first one ( Al-Hatab File) is located at the intersection of Ibn Al-Roumi Street with Al-Dablan or Al-Mutanabbi Street. The late (Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Atassi) changed the direction of the waterwheel and deleted the file, so he made the waterwheel pass from the east of Al-Dablan Park and walk in one straight direction in a southeasterly direction until the end of (Hafiz Ibrahim) Street, where its old course meets at the corner of the aforementioned street. This was done in the twenties, the heart of the modern city of this century, while he was mayor.

The second outlet was at (the winery alley), under which the waterwheel used to pass after crossing Al-Quwatli Street towards the north, before it was built to build the heart of the modern city.

The water of the waterwheel was not clean, as the water drawn from it was often mixed with the urine of the watering animals, and therefore people preferred the water of the Orontes, and the waterer who filled his narrator from the common man would mark this with a bunch of the Allafa plant: the narrator’s upper spout, and would ask for a price for his water that was more expensive than the water of the waterwheel by a house (( Gherkin) (1). . These jars were often used by allies to deceive. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bartenders used to go around the neighborhoods calling out: “Yeau.” One of them interpreted it as saying that the word was taken from the French and its origin is “yeau,” meaning there is water. The people used to put the water in the “khabiya” or “jarrah,” and if the quantity was small, it was put in. He poured into (2) jugs of (drinking), all of which were made of pottery. As for the rich, they used to take (karaz), which is bright white pottery that was brought from Lebanon.

Some of the women used to use the Al-Sakia site near the hospice as a place where they washed clothes, and if the Bedouins attacked the city, they would rob the women and take away from them everything they brought for washing and whatever gold or silver jewelry they carried, such as rings, bracelets, and earrings.

The Orontes derived three streams on its left bank, other than the stream on the right bank, which we studied above, and these streams are still working today.

1 - Sakia (Al-Bak):

We do not know the name of the Bek who established it, but he is definitely one of the Turkmen Beys of Al-Rabi’ah. It is taken from the north of the old dam and north of the guard house that stands on it, and the public calls it (Qamar Belqis) and it runs parallel to the Orontes on its left bank until it ends in the orchards of the village (Al-Rabi’a). It is not considered part of the public sector, but rather it is private property. Its care and the costs of upgrading it fall on the owner of the village of Al-Rabi’a. It existed before the construction of the modern dam, and its owners reserved their rights to the sea’s water when the current dam was built. Al-Saqia was allocated an outlet located to the north of the Orontes outlet, which supplies it with the water it needs.

2 - Al-Wariya:

It begins at the Al-Mazraa Mill, north of the Tripoli Road, and runs parallel to Al-War and adjacent to the orchards near it, west of the Orontes, and remains on its path between the orchards and Al-War until it ends near the (Al-Duwair) Mill on the Orontes. We do not know the date of its construction.

3- Al-Ghamaya:

It was mentioned in the Waqfiya (Al-Chalabi dated 976 AH = 1568 AD). As follows: (and all) the Al-Saqi tree grove, located in the outskirts of Homs, guarded from the lands of Al-Jawwaniyat, known as Busta Al-Jamra, and drinking it from the Naghmaya waterwheel is an ancient obligation.

After the Orontes leaves the Al-Mazraa Mill on the Tripoli Road, about (2) km away, an island is formed in the middle of its course on which the property (1728) is located, a sixth area. And in front of the aforementioned island, the Al-Ghamaya stream branches off, all the orchards located between it and the Orontes up to Al-Mimas, where it flows into it after the mill. . As for Al-Wariyya, it waters the orchards that lie between it and the Sakiyyat (Al-Ghamaya).