{
 "id": "place/black-sea-nitas",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "black-sea-nitas",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بحر نيطس (البحر الأسود)",
  "en": "The sea of Nitas (Black Sea)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خليج يتفرع من البحر الشامي عند فم أبذه، وعرضه هناك بقدر رمية سهم، ويتصل عند القسطنطينية، ثم يمتد شرقاً إلى مصبات الروس وبرجان ونهر دنابر ونهر دنو حتى مضيق القسطنطينية، وطوله نحو ألف وثلاث مائة ميل، وفيه ست جزائر {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 12}.",
  "en": "A gulf branching from the Syrian sea at the mouth of Abdhah, narrow enough to cross with an arrow's flight there. It widens at Constantinople and runs east past the Rus, Burjan and the Dnieper and Danube rivers back to the Constantinople strait; about 1,300 miles long with six islands {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 12}."
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "sea",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 12 (scan page)",
   "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": "بحر نيطس هو البحر الأسود في تسمية البطاقة. يصفه الإدريسي بأنه خليج يتفرع من البحر الشامي عند فم أبذه، وعرضه هناك بقدر رمية سهم. ثم يتصل عند القسطنطينية، ويمتد شرقاً إلى مصبات الروس وبرجان ونهر دنابر ونهر دنو حتى مضيق القسطنطينية. طوله نحو ألف وثلاث مائة ميل، وفيه ست جزائر. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.12}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/black-sea-nitas",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Sea of Nitas is the Black Sea under the naming of the card. al-Idrisi describes it as a gulf branching from the Syrian sea at the mouth of Abdhah, and its width there is the range of an arrow. It then connects at Constantinople and extends east to the mouths of the Russians, Burjan, the river Danapr and the river Danu, as far as the strait of Constantinople. Its length is about one thousand three hundred miles, and it has six islands. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.12}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/black-sea-nitas",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}