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while the irrigated areas in the old-settled areas had intensive cultivation of veg-
etables, a variety of summer fruits and fruit trees. The focus of irrigation in the dry
steppe areas of northern Syria has been the use of groundwater pump wells (after
German to English translation and modification from Wirth 1971 ).

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