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BISOTUN
(Bīsetūn, Bīstūn, Behistun), the modern name of a cliff rising on the north side of the age-old caravan trail and main military route from Babylon and Baghdad over the Zagros mountains to Hamadān).
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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.