{
 "id": "place/al-sham",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-sham",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Sham (Greater Syria)",
  "ar": "بلاد الشام"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The lands north of Arabia where Qudaʾa’s Salihids then the Ghassanids ruled as Rome’s client kings, and to which Harran-bound Ibrahim had earlier passed through Palestine.",
  "ar": "البلاد شمال الجزيرة؛ ملك فيها الضجاعمة ثم الغساسنة وكلاء للروم، وكان مورد تجارة قريش وباب الجزيرة إلى أوربا."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 23–34 (batch 25b)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "بلاد الشام: حدود الجزيرة الشمالية الغربية؛ دار ملوك العرب وكلاء الروم من الضجاعمة إلى الغساسنة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكان",
     "markdown": "الناحية الشمالية الغربية من جزيرة العرب باب للدخول في قارة إفريقية، والشمالية الشرقية مفتاح لقارة أوربا {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nاصطنع الرومان فيها ملوكاً من العرب ليمنعوا عرب البرية من العبث وليكونوا عدة ضد الفرس: أولاً بنو سليح الضجاعمة، ثم الغساسنة بعدهم حتى وقعة اليرموك {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "الشام الأرض شمال الجزيرة حيث دمشق؛ حكمها ملوك عرب يخدمون قيصر الروم."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-sham",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Sham (Syria): the peninsula's north-western frontier; seat of the Arab kings who served Rome as agents, from the Daja'ima to the Ghassanids."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "The peninsula's north-western side is a gateway into the African continent, and its north-eastern side a key to the continent of Europe {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nThe Romans cultivated Arab kings there to keep the desert Arabs from mischief and to be a force against Persia: first Banu Salih the Daja'ima, then the Ghassanids after them until the battle of Yarmuk {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Al-Sham is the land north of the peninsula where Damascus is; Arab kings ruled it in service of Rome's Caesar."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-sham",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/qudaa",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "انتقلت من بادية السماوة إلى مشارف الشام في عهد أردشير.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/qudaa"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}