Irrigation System And Draining Projects At Kopaida Lake, (1450 BC) |
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Irrigation System And Draining Projects At Kopaida Lake, (1450 BC) |
3 May 2007, 01:20 PM
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IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND DRAINING PROJECTS AT KOPAIDA LAKE
(1450 BC) Huge, from the aspect of the rage as much as of the technology that it had used, were the irrigation and draining projects at Kopaida lake. Those projects were accomplished by the Minies of the Orhomenou at the valley of Kopaida. Because of their extension , German scholars who are researching them since 1980, characterized them as “ the biger irrigation projects of ancient Europe”. Minies, a mysterious Greek race from Ancient Kolhida, had extent knowledge in mechanic and technology so they attempted to draining the valley of Kopaida because it overfluew from the waters of the Melana and Kigisou river. For this they constructed a vast irrigation canal, of 40m. width and up to 5m. depth, that it used as a navigable river too (the famous “Minion Canal). In this canal were concentrated all the waters from the rivers, from were they directed to various natural swallow-holes and in the end they ended to the Larimna bay. The interspace draining land surrounded by settlements and the forge of Gla, who was controlling the area, on the other hand the biger part of the area was cultivated. The Minion Canal was 43khm long and it was connected with another big and some smaller cross-branches. Minies constructed as a supplementary project an artificial swallow-hollow, to reinforce the absorption of the waters because the natural swallow-hollows were not enough nor efficients. The artificial swallow-hollow was 2500m. long, 1.80m. high and 1.50m. length. It had 16 vertical openings (manholes), that were opened first and through them was dug the swallow-hollow and later was maintained. It is considered as a significant artificial work that it has not been explored neither searched. Today it’s entrance is blocked by the cheese-maker sheperds. Those projects were maintained by the Minies for hundreds of years until their destruction from the earthquakes in 1100B.C. The archaeologist Theodoros Spiropoulos, after his excavations at Kopaida (Big Swallow-Hollow and the Miniac Dam), dated the artificial works of Kopaidas’ back to 2.500 B.C, approximately, and attributed them to Minies (who considers them as colonels from the East Mediterranean or Aigypt and constructors of many significant works here in Greece) [SOURCE]Bert Heinrich, “Prehistoric Hydraulic Constructions in the Copais” [/SOURCE] -------------------- |
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