{
 "id": "place/al-hira",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-hira",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Hira",
  "ar": "الحيرة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The Arab capital on the edge of Iraq’s Sawad, seat of the Lakhmid kings who guarded Persia’s frontier from Ardashir’s day until 632.",
  "ar": "عاصمة ملوك العرب على تخوم سواد العراق؛ مقر المناذرة ولاة فارس على البادية من عهد أردشير حتى سنة 632م."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 23–34 (batch 25b)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الحيرة: عاصمة المناذرة قرب الكوفة؛ مقر ملوك العرب ولاة فارس على تخوم البادية ثلاثة قرون ونصفاً."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكان",
     "markdown": "في عهد أردشير كانت الحيرة دار ملك العرب التابعين للفرس؛ وكان ملكها يبقي عنده كتيبة من جند الفرس ليستعين بها على الخارجين على سلطانه من عرب البادية {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}.\n\nوتوالى عليها ملوك لخم من عمرو بن عدي حتى آخرهم المنذر الملقب بالمعرور سنة 632م {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "الحيرة مدينة عربية قديمة قرب الكوفة؛ حكمها ملوك خدموا ملوك فارس يحرسون حدودهم."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-hira",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Hira: the capital of the Manadhira near Kufa; seat of the Arab kings who were Persia's wardens on the desert marches for three and a half centuries."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "In Ardashir's era al-Hira was the seat of the Arab kings subject to Persia; its king kept a battalion of Persian soldiers with him to aid him against desert Arabs who rebelled against his authority {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}.\n\nLakhm's kings succeeded one another there from Amr ibn Adi until the last of them, al-Nu'man called al-Ma'rur, in 632 CE {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Al-Hira is an old Arab city near Kufa; kings ruled it in service of Persia's kings, guarding their frontier."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-hira",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "person/abu-burqan",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-mundhir-ibn-ma-al-sama",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/al-aalam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-numan-ibn-al-mundhir",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0602~"
   },
   "sources": [
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   "to": "person/iyas-ibn-qabisa",
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   "to": "person/jadhima-al-abrash",
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/banu-lakhm",
  "event/battle-of-dhu-qar",
  "person/amr-ibn-adi",
  "person/jadhima-al-abrash",
  "event/hawazin-delegation-and-amnesty",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/hani-ibn-masud",
  "person/abu-burqan"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}