Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System' has mentioned 'Irrigation' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Complex irrigation system from the Sassanid era, island city Shushtar, Iran | WIKI |
| Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, (Persian: xd8xb3xd8xa7xd8xb2xd9x87xe2x80x8cxd9x87xd8xa7xdbx8c xd8xa2xd8xa8xdbx8c xd8xb4xd9x88xd8xb4xd8xaaxd8xb1xe2x80x8e) is a complex irrigation system of the island city Shushtar from the Sassanid era. | WIKI |
| The Band-e Kaisar ("Caesar's dam"), an approximately 500-metre (1,600xc2xa0ft) long Roman weir across the Karun, was the key structure of the complex which, along with the Mizan Dam (Band-e Mizan), retained and diverted river water into the irrigation canals in the area. | WIKI |
| Parts of the irrigation system are said to originally date to the time of Darius the Great, an Achaemenian king of Iran. | WIKI |
| It is as rich in its diversity of civil engineering structures and its constructions as in the diversity of its uses (urban water supply, mills, irrigation, river transport, and defensive system). | UNESCO |
| The Gargar canal is a veritable artificial watercourse which made possible the construction of a new town and the irrigation of a vast plain, at the time semi-desert. | UNESCO |
| It has benefited from the ancient expertise of the Elamites and Mesopotamians in canal irrigation, and then that of the Nabateans; Roman technicians also influenced its construction. | UNESCO |
| By diverting a river flowing down the mountains, using large-scale civil engineering structures and the creation of canals, it made possible multiple uses for the water across a vast territory: urban water supply, agricultural irrigation, fish farming, mills, transport, defence system, etc. | UNESCO |
| The integrity of the hydraulic footprint is good, but its functional integrity compared with the original model is only partial and reduced, notably for the dams; it remains good for irrigation and water supply. | UNESCO |