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 "id": "place/malanda",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "malanda",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ملندة",
  "en": "Malanda"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة كبيرة على ساحل البحر في بلاد الزنج، يعيش أهلها من الصيد براً وبحراً، ويستخرجون الحديد ويعملونه، ويزعم أهلها أنهم يسحرون الحيوان المؤذي فلا يؤذي إلا من أرادوا ضره، وعندهم أن الساحر يُسمّى بلغتهم المقنقا {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 59}.",
  "en": "A large town on the coast of the Zanj lands. Its people live by hunting on land and sea and work iron they mine. They claim to charm dangerous animals so that they harm only those they choose, and they have a word in their language for a sorcerer {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 59}."
 },
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  "place"
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 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 59 (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": "ملندة مدينة كبيرة على ساحل البحر في بلاد الزنج. يعيش أهلها من الصيد براً وبحراً، ويستخرجون الحديد ويعملونه. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}\n\nيذكر الإدريسي أنهم يزعمون أنهم يسحرون الحيوان المؤذي فلا يؤذي إلا من أرادوا ضره، وأن الساحر يُسمّى عندهم بلغتهم «المقنقا». {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malanda",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Malanda is a large city on the coast of the sea in the land of the Zanj. Its people live by hunting on land and sea, and they extract iron and work it. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}\n\nAl-Idrisi says that they claim to be able to bewitch harmful animals, so that the animals harm only those they wish to harm. He adds that their sorcerer is called in their language \"al-Muqanqa\". {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malanda",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}