{
 "id": "place/iraq",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "iraq",
 "label": {
  "en": "Iraq",
  "ar": "العراق"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The land of Ur and the Sawad under Persian rule: home of the Lakhmid client kingdom at al-Hira, the Jewish settlements that migrated to the Hijaz, and the banks of the Euphrates giving onto the Jazira tribes.",
  "ar": "أرض أور والسواد تحت حكم فارس؛ دار مملكة الحيرة التابعة، ومهاجرة يهودها إلى الحجاز، وتخوم قبائل الجزيرة الفراتية."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 23–34 (batch 25b)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "العراق: أرض أور مهاجر إبراهيم، ومملكة الحيرة التابعة للفرس، وموطن هجرات اليهود القديمة إلى الحجاز."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكان",
     "markdown": "أصل جد العرب المستعربة إبراهيم من بلاد العراق، من بلدة يقال لها أور على الشاطئ الغربي من نهر الفرات قرب الكوفة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nحكمت الفرس العراق وما جاورها منذ قورش الكبير، وفيها قامت مملكة الحيرة اللخمية ولاةً على عرب البادية {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}. ومنها هاجر قسم من يهود فلسطين إلى الحجاز في عهد الفتوح البابلية {cite:qalb-jazirat-al-arab}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "العراق بلاد دجلة والفرات؛ منها خرج إبراهيم، وفيها ملوك الحيرة حلفاء فارس."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/iraq",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Iraq: the land of Ur from which Abraham emigrated, seat of the Persian-subject kingdom of al-Hira, and home of the Jews' old migrations to the Hijaz."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "The father-stock of the Arabised Arabs, Abraham, is from the land of Iraq — from a town called Ur on the western bank of the Euphrates near Kufa {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nPersia ruled Iraq and its neighbours since Cyrus the Great; in it stood the Lakhmid kingdom of al-Hira as wardens over the desert Arabs {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya}. From it a part of Palestine's Jews emigrated to the Hijaz in the era of the Babylonian conquests {cite:qalb-jazirat-al-arab}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Iraq is the land of the Tigris and Euphrates; from it Abraham set out, and in it were al-Hira's kings, Persia's allies."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/iraq",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}