foggara

Japanese: foggara
foggara

...Qanat spread from Iran to East Turkestan (Xinjiang) (where they are called kanji wells), Afghanistan, and West Pakistan. They were also introduced to Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa (where they are called foggara), the Iberian Peninsula, Eastern European countries, and even South America, including Peru, by the Spanish. In the 11th century, the Iranian mathematician Karaji al-Karaji wrote a manual on digging qanat, called "Developing the Water Latent in the Earth."...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "foggara" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…カナートはイランから東トルキスタン(新疆)に伝播し(坎児井と呼ばれる),アフガニスタン,西パキスタンにも伝わった。またイラク,シリア,ヨルダン,キプロス,アラビア半島,北アフリカ(フォガラfoggaraと呼ばれる),イベリア半島,東欧諸国,さらにスペイン人によってペルーなど南米にももたらされた。11世紀にイランの数学者カラジーal‐Karajīによって《地中に潜在する水の開発》というカナート掘削の指南書が書かれた。…

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