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 "id": "place/qulzum",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "qulzum",
 "label": {
  "ar": "القلزم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عند البلاذري: بحر وطريق ولّاه المتوكل محمد بن عبد الله القمي مع المعدن بمصر وطريق الحجاز وحمل منه الميرة في المراكب إلى بلاد البجة.، وعلى ميل منها الموضع المعروف بذنب التمساح حيث حفر ملك من الروم طريقاً نحو بحر الروم فلم يتصل لارتفاع القلزم، عليه قنطرة عظيمة تعبرها قوافل حج مصر {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 558}",
  "en": "In al-Baladhuri: a sea and route al-Mutawakkil gave Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Qummi together with Egypt's mine and the Hijaz road; provisions were carried from it in ships to the Buja lands."
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile",
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "sea",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 333",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-25"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407",
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "القلزم بحر وطريق. يذكر البلاذري أن المتوكل ولّى محمد بن عبد الله القمي أمره مع المعدن بمصر وطريق الحجاز، وحُملت منه الميرة في المراكب إلى بلاد البجة. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.333}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ذنب التمساح",
     "markdown": "على ميل منها موضع يعرف بذنب التمساح، حفر فيه ملك من الروم طريقاً نحو بحر الروم فلم يتصل لارتفاع القلزم. عليه قنطرة عظيمة تعبرها قوافل حج مصر. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.558}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/qulzum",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Qulzum is a sea and a road. Al-Baladhuri mentions that al-Mutawakkil appointed Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Qummi over the affairs of the mine in Egypt and the road to the Hijaz. Grain was carried from it by ships to the lands of the Beja. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.333}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Dhanab al-Timsah (the Crocodile's Tail)",
     "markdown": "A mile from it is a site known as Dhanab al-Timsah. A king of the Romans dug a channel there toward the Roman sea, but it did not join, because of the height of the Qulzum. On it is a great bridge which the pilgrim caravans of Egypt cross. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.558}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/qulzum",
    "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"
 }
}