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 "id": "place/balaq",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "balaq",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بلاق",
  "en": "Balaq"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة من مدن النوبة بين ذراعين من النيل، يجتمع فيها تجار النوبة والحبشة وتجار أرض مصر عند الصلح والهدنة. ومن بلاق إلى جبل الجنادل سبعة أيام في البر. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38-39}",
  "en": "A town in Nubia between two arms of the Nile, where merchants from Nubia, Abyssinia and Egypt meet during truces. Seven days' journey by land to the cataract of Janadil. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38-39}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 38-39 (scan pages)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بلاق مدينة من مدن النوبة بين ذراعين من النيل، بحسب الإدريسي. يجتمع فيها تجار النوبة والحبشة وتجار أرض مصر عند الصلح والهدنة. ومن بلاق إلى جبل الجنادل سبعة أيام في البر. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.38-39}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/balaq",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Balaq: a city of the towns of Nubia between two arms of the Nile, according to al-Idrisi. The merchants of Nubia, Abyssinia and the land of Egypt gather there at the time of peace and truce. It is seven days by land from Balaq to the mountain of the cataracts. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.38-39}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/balaq",
    "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"
 }
}