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Cistern cities · Mysteria

CategoriesCistern cities

Cistern cities

Every place in the atlas labelled cistern cities.

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works

Anabata (Anabeta) Reservoir Old City (Wadi Abu al-Qittayn Cistern City)

Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora

Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.