{
 "id": "place/petra",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "petra",
 "label": {
  "en": "Petra (al-Batraʾ)",
  "ar": "البتراء"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Capital of the Nabataeans — the descendants of Nabit ibn Ismail in the traditional account — in northern Hijaz, whose strong kingdom dominated the fringes until the Romans broke it.",
  "ar": "عاصمة الأنباط — أبناء نابت بن إسماعيل في العرض النسقي — بشمال الحجاز، وكانت حكومتهم القوية لا يستطيع مناوأتها أحد حتى نقضها الرومان."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/tarikh-ard-al-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 15–34 (batch 25a)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "البتراء: عاصمة الأنباط بشمال الحجاز، حكومة قوية لم يستطع مناوأتها أحد حتى نقضها الرومان."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكان",
     "markdown": "ازدهرت حضارة الأنباط — أبناء نابت بن إسماعيل في العرض النسقي — في شمال الحجاز، وكوّنوا حكومة قوية دان لها من بأطرافها واتخذوا البتراء عاصمة لهم، ولم يكن يستطيع مناوأتهم أحد حتى جاء الرومان فنقضوا عليهم {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}.\n\nورجّح السيد سليمان الندوي أن ملوك آل غسان والأنصار من الأوس والخزرج كانوا من آل نابت بن إسماعيل وبقاياهم في تلك الديار {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "البتراء مدينة قديمة منحوتة في الصخر؛ كانت عاصمة قوم قويين اسمهم الأنباط."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/petra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Petra: the Nabataeans' capital in the northern Hijaz; a strong power none could rival until the Romans undid it."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "The Nabataeans' civilisation — sons of Nabat ibn Isma'il in the genealogists' presentation — flourished in the northern Hijaz; they formed a strong government to which those at its fringes submitted, and made Petra their capital; none could rival them until the Romans came and undid them {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}.\n\nSayyid Sulayman al-Nadwi inclined to the view that the kings of the Ghassanid house and the Ansar of the Aws and Khazraj were of Nabat ibn Isma'il's house and their remnants in those lands {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Petra is an ancient city carved in rock; it was the capital of a strong people called the Nabataeans."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/petra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}