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 "id": "place/al-nil",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-nil",
 "label": {
  "ar": "النيل",
  "en": "al-Nil"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة بالسواد؛ عند البلاذري احتفر الحجاج نهر النيل والزابي وسماه زابياً لأخذه من الزابي القديم وأحيا ما عليهما من الأرضين وأحدث المدينة التي تعرف بالنيل ومصرها.",
  "en": "A town in the Sawad; in al-Baladhuri al-Hajjaj dug the Nil and Zabi canals — naming the latter for the old Zabi — revived their lands, and founded and garrisoned the city called al-Nil."
 },
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  "place"
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 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 408",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-37"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "النيل مدينة في السواد. يروي البلاذري أن الحجاج احتفر نهر النيل ونهر الزابي، وسماه زابياً لأنه أخذه من الزابي القديم، وأحيا الأرضين التي عليهما، وأحدث المدينة المعروفة بالنيل واتخذها مصراً. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.408}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-nil",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "al-Nil: a town in al-Sawad. al-Baladhuri reports that al-Hajjaj dug the river al-Nil and the river al-Zabi. He named it al-Zabi because he took it from the old al-Zabi, revived the lands on both of them, and founded the town known as al-Nil, which he made a garrison city. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.408}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-nil",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}