{
 "id": "place/marsa-al-kharaz",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "marsa-al-kharaz",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مرسى الخرز",
  "en": "Marsa al-Kharaz"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة صغيرة عليها سور حصين، يعيش أهلها على صيد المرجان، وفيها معدن المرجان الذي يُحمل إلى سائر الأقطار، ويقصدها التجار من كل البلاد. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 290} وقال المقدسي إنها مدينة في جزيرة يدخل إليها من موضع واحد ومنها يرتفع المرجان لا معدن له غيرها ولا يخرج إلا من بحرها {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p. 181}.",
  "en": "A small town with a strong wall, whose people live by coral fishing; its coral beds supply the coral that is carried to every land, and merchants come from all regions. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 290}"
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 290 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002",
   "source/ahsan-al-taqasim"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مرسى الخرز مدينة صغيرة عليها سور حصين، يعيش أهلها على صيد المرجان، ومنها يُحمل المرجان إلى سائر الأقطار، ويقصدها التجار من كل البلاد، بحسب الإدريسي. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.290}\n\nويذكر المقدسي أنها مدينة في جزيرة يُدخل إليها من موضع واحد، وأن المرجان يُستخرج من بحرها ولا معدن له غيرها. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/marsa-al-kharaz",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Marsa al-Kharaz, the Harbour of Beads, is a small city with a strong wall. Its people live by catching coral, which is carried from it to all lands, and merchants from every country come to it, according to al-Idrisi. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.290}\n\nAl-Maqdisi mentions that it is a city on an island which can be entered from one point only, that coral is extracted from its sea, and that there is no other source of coral. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/marsa-al-kharaz",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}