Windmills of Syria 🌍



Remaining Mills

Bagdad Cafe (#sy3)

(33.77183,37.0546)
wind engine:

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Krak des Chevaliers (#sy2)

(34.75789,36.2944)

Widely mentioned that one of the castle towers had a windmill, and is illustrated as such in "History Of Corn Milling" by Richard Bennett.

[drawing]

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Tartus (#sy1)

(34.88984,35.8775)
smock mill :
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Quneitra/Qunaytra (#sy4)

primitive wind engine:

Described in the photo caption as noria - hence a water raising device. From an album of photos assembled by Tamir Nassar from the American University of Beirut in the 1920's and 30's.

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