{
 "id": "place/hadra",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "hadra",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الحضر",
  "en": "al-Hadra (Hatra)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الحصن المعروف بالحضر في رستاق أياجر من بلاد الموصل، كان للساطرون بن أسيطرون ملك السريانيين، ذكره الشعراء لعظم ملكه وحسن بنائه منهم أبو داود جارية بن حجاج الأيادي، ثم تملكه الضيزن بن جبهلة بن معاوية من تنوخ، فنزل عليه سابور الجنود فتحصن فيه شهراً لا يجد سبيلاً إلى فتحه حتى دلته النضيرة بنت الضيزن على مأخذه من نهر الثرثار فهدمه بعد أن قتل الضيزن ومن معه {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 552-554}.",
  "en": "The famed desert fortress Hatra in the Ayajir district of Mosul — seat of the Arab king al-Dayzan which Shapur I failed to take for a month until al-Nadira betrayed its water-ingress; poets sang its fall {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 552-554}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 552–554",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-7"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الحضر حصن معروف في رستاق أياجر من بلاد [[place/mosul|الموصل]]، كان للساطرون بن أسيطرون ملك السريانيين. يذكر المسعودي أن الشعراء ذكروه لعظم ملكه وحسن بنائه، منهم أبو داود جارية بن حجاج الأيادي. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.552-554}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الضيزن وسابور",
     "markdown": "يذكر المسعودي أن الضيزن بن جبهلة بن معاوية من تنوخ تملكه بعد ذلك. فنزل عليه سابور الجنود فتحصن فيه شهراً لا يجد سبيلاً إلى فتحه، حتى دلته النضيرة بنت الضيزن على مأخذه من نهر الثرثار، فهدمه بعد أن قتل الضيزن ومن معه. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.552-554}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/hadra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Hadr is a known fortress in the district of Ayajir, in the land of [[place/mosul|Mosul]]. It belonged to al-Satirun, son of Asitirun, king of the Syrians. Al-Mas'udi reports that poets mentioned it for the greatness of its kingdom and the fine quality of its building, among them Abu Dawud Jariya ibn Hajjaj al-Iyadi. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.552-554}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Dayzan and Shapur",
     "markdown": "Al-Mas'udi reports that al-Dayzan ibn Jabhala ibn Mu'awiya of Tanukh ruled it after that. Shapur came down upon it with his troops, and it held out for a month, and he could find no way to take it, until the daughter of al-Dayzan, al-Nadiriyya, showed him its water source from the river al-Tharthar. He broke it down after killing al-Dayzan and those with him. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.552-554}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/hadra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/siege-of-hadra",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-dayzan-ibn-muawiya",
  "person/sabur-ibn-ardashir",
  "event/siege-of-hadra"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}