The Aghlabid Pools (Kairouan)

Tunisia / al-Qayrawan / Kairouan
 museum, place with historical importance, balancing lake / flood basin
The Omeyad Caliph Hisham Ibn Abdelmalek (724-743 A.D.) ordered his Governor in Kairouan, Obeid Allah Ibn El Habhab, to build 15 pools to provide the city with water, including those of Sidi Youssef Dahmani which are still there today. The larger pool of Sidi Dahmani has an inside diameter of 73m, and the smaller one 27m.

The main artistic hydraulic installation during the Aghlabid dynasty was the construction of two big pools. The construction lasted from 859 to 863 A.D. These pools are 950m from the ‘Door of Tunis’( Bab Tounes) and stretch over an area of 11000m2.

Abu Ibrahim Ahmed Ibn Al Aghlab (6th prince 856-863 A.D.) completed the most famous of these facilities.

(source: www.kairouan-cci2009.nat.tn)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghlabid_Basins
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Coordinates:   35°41'13"N   10°5'46"E
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