{
 "id": "place/nahr-al-bazzaq",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "nahr-al-bazzaq",
 "label": {
  "ar": "نهر البزاق",
  "en": "Nahr al-Bazzaq"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "نهر قديم بالسواد؛ عند البلاذري كان يدعى بالنبطية «لبساق» أي الذي يقطع الماء عما يليه ويجره إليه وهو نهر يجتمع إليه فضول مياه آجام السيب وماء من ماء الفرات فقال الناس البزاق.",
  "en": "An old Sawad canal; in al-Baladhuri called in Nabataean 'la-Bassaq' — one that cuts water off its neighbour and draws it to itself — gathering surplus waters of al-Sib's marshes and Euphrates water, which the people corrupted to al-Bazzaq."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad",
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "river",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 409",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-37"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نهر البزاق نهر قديم بالسواد. يروي البلاذري أنه كان يدعى بالنبطية «لبساق»، أي الذي يقطع الماء عما يليه ويجره إليه. وهو نهر يجتمع إليه فضول مياه آجام السيب وماء من ماء الفرات، فقال الناس «البزاق». {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.409}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nahr-al-bazzaq",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The River of al-Bazzaq is an ancient river in al-Sawad. Al-Baladhuri relates that it was called in Nabataean \"Lubsaq\", meaning the one that cuts water off from what lies beside it and draws it to itself. It is a river to which the surplus waters of the reed-beds of al-Sayb gather, along with water from the Euphrates, and so people called it \"al-Bazzaq\". {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.409}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nahr-al-bazzaq",
    "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"
 }
}