{
 "id": "place/mediterranean-sea-nuzhat",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "mediterranean-sea-nuzhat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "البحر الشامي (البحر المتوسط)",
  "en": "The Syrian sea (Mediterranean)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يخرج من البحر المظلم في المغرب عند الزقاق، وهو عرضه هناك نحو ثمانية عشر ميلاً، ويمر شرقاً بسواحل المغرب وإفريقية ومصر والشام وأنطاكية والقسطنطينية وصقلية وبلاد الروم والأندلس، وطوله نحو ألف فرسخ ومائة وستة وثلاثين فرسخاً، وفيه نحو مائة جزيرة {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 11}.",
  "en": "Al-Idrisi's Syrian sea enters from the western dark sea at the strait of al-Zuqaq, eighteen miles wide there, and runs east past the Maghreb, Ifriqiya, Egypt, Syria, Antioch, Constantinople, Sicily and Andalusia; about 1,136 farsakhs long with some hundred islands {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 11}."
 },
 "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 البحر الشامي، وهو البحر المتوسط، بأنه يخرج من البحر المظلم في المغرب عند الزقاق، ويبلغ عرضه هناك نحو ثمانية عشر ميلاً. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.11}\n\nويمر شرقاً بسواحل المغرب وإفريقية ومصر والشام وأنطاكية والقسطنطينية وصقلية وبلاد الروم والأندلس. ويقدّر طوله بنحو ألف فرسخ ومائة وستة وثلاثين فرسخاً، وفيه نحو مائة جزيرة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.11}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/mediterranean-sea-nuzhat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Idrisi describes the Syrian Sea, which is the Mediterranean, as issuing from the Dark Sea in the west at the strait, where its width is about eighteen miles. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.11}\n\nIt runs eastward past the coasts of the Maghrib, Ifriqiya, Egypt, al-Sham, Antioch, Constantinople, Sicily, the lands of the Romans and al-Andalus. Its length is estimated at about one thousand one hundred and thirty-six farsakhs, and it contains about a hundred islands. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.11}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/mediterranean-sea-nuzhat",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
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 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}