Famous Cisterns
- Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, Turkey
- Cistern in El Jadida, Morocco
- Cistern in Silves, Portugal
- Matera
- King Asa had built a cistern and the prophet Jeremiah was later thrown in it after prophesying the Babylonian invasion
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“And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells”
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