{
 "id": "place/kulwa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "kulwa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كلوا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة ساحلية عظيمة، أكثر أهلها من الزنوج، وبيوتها من الخشب، وأهلها شافعية المذهب. يذكر ابن بطوطة أن سفالة على مسيرة نصف شهر منها (الرحلة، الطبعة 1958م، ص 163)، وأنه ركب البحر منها إلى ظفار الحموض."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  -8.95897,
  39.49808
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   -8.95897,
   39.49808
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "النص لا يعطي موقعا. الإحداثيات نقطة GeoNames لـ«Kilwa Kisiwani» في تنزانيا؛ تطابق الاسم بين كلوا وكيلوا كيسيواني استنتاج من الباحث، لم يتحقق منه بعد.",
  "external_ids": {
   "geonames": "157382"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/rihla-ibn-battuta-1958"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Rihla of Ibn Battuta, Arabic edition 1958, printed p. 163 (scan p. 164), with the stated distance to Sofala; coordinates from GeoNames (Kilwa Kisiwani)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "journeys-phase1-kulwa"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code; drafted from Rihla of Ibn Battuta printed p. 163. The identification with Kilwa Kisiwani is an inference, unverified; it is not stated in the text. Not checked against the scan image. The Kulwa-to-Zafar sea leg is stated in the text (printed p. 164) but kept unlinked: the Zafar end is unsettled (place/zafar-yemen has no coordinates); link it once that is resolved."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كلوا مدينة ساحلية عظيمة، أكثر أهلها من الزنوج، وبيوتها من الخشب، وأهلها شافعية المذهب. يذكر ابن بطوطة أن سفالة على مسيرة نصف شهر منها، وأنه ركب البحر منها إلى ظفار الحموض. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958 p.163} تطابق الاسم مع كيلوا كيسيواني في تنزانيا استنتاج من الباحث لم يتحقق منه بعد؛ يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kulwa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kulwa is a great coastal town. Most of its people are Africans, its houses are of wood, and its people follow the Shafi'i school. Ibn Battuta reports that Sofala lies half a month's journey from it, and that from it he took ship to Zufar al-Hamud. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958 p.163}\n\nThe name matches Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania, an inference by a researcher that has not yet been verified. An additional source is needed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kulwa",
    "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"
 }
}