{
 "id": "place/indian-ocean-nuzhat",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "indian-ocean-nuzhat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "البحر الهندي والصيني (بحر الصين والهند والسند واليمن)",
  "en": "The Indian and Chinese sea (China, India, Sind and Yemen)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "وصفه الإدريسي بأنه يبدأ فوق خط الاستواء بثلاث عشرة درجة، ويمتد غرباً مع الخط مارّاً بالصين والهند والسند وجنوب اليمن إلى باب المندب، وطوله نحو أربعة آلاف وخمس مائة فرسخ، وفيه نحو ثلاث مائة جزيرة {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 9}.",
  "en": "Al-Idrisi describes this sea as beginning thirteen degrees north of the equator, running west past China, India, Sind and southern Yemen to Bab al-Mandab, about 4,500 farsakhs long, with some three hundred islands {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 9}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "sea",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 9-11 (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": "يصف الإدريسي هذا البحر بأنه يبدأ فوق خط الاستواء بثلاث عشرة درجة، ويمتد غرباً مع الخط مارّاً بالصين والهند والسند وجنوب اليمن حتى باب المندب. ويقدّر طوله بنحو أربعة آلاف وخمسمائة فرسخ، ويذكر فيه نحو ثلاثمائة جزيرة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.9}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "place/indian-ocean-nuzhat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Idrisi describes this sea as beginning thirteen degrees north of the equator, and extending westward along the line past China, India, Sind and the south of Yemen as far as Bab al-Mandab. He estimates its length at about four thousand five hundred farsakhs, and mentions about three hundred islands in it. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.9}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/indian-ocean-nuzhat",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "degree": 0,
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}