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HAMADĀN vii. MONUMENTS
The city of Hamadān, besides its pre-Islamic remains, contains some important Islamic monuments. The most significant is the mausoleum called Gonbad-e ʿAlawiān, square and massive, almost entirely of baked brick. Its façade was once covered with opulent stucco decoration.
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KĀRIZ iv. ORIGIN AND DISSEMINATION
One very common technique is an underflow channel in a river valley, which captures water from the shallow aquifer formed by seepage from the watercourse.